A week had passed since they arrived in the Silver Moon Kingdom. Nikolai spent most of his days interrogating Knights and Castle staff, trying to weed out the resistors against the alliance. Roland had returned to Blood Moon, taking up the mantle while Nikolai was away and sending a few troops to Silver Moon to protect the King and the rest of the royal family until they had fully investigated everyone. Roxanne spent all her time in the library, searching for anything about a prophecy or maybe even the missing half of the scroll Gertrude had spoken about. It also was a good hideout from the Queen who was bugging her about preparations for the wedding, which Roxanne was really not that interested in. In her eyes, she and Nikolai were true mates and a wedding seemed unnecessary, even though
