“Nature can provide everything for us,” Nakia said on one summer day in Tollyria, “We just need to be smart about it.” That day, the princesses had gone on a hunting trip. It was the first time Lyria had joined one ever since she was born. She was only following her stepsisters, who were eager to hunt. Truthfully, she just wanted to spend time with them, to bond with them.
But assassins found them deep in the forest. It was a disaster … for the assassins. They thought four girls riding by themselves were defenseless beings. They had never been more wrong.
At that time, Lyria was still able to call on her elemental magic. She had sensed the slight shift of the air. Even Scarlett, who was a shapeshifter, was able to smell the stench of sweaty men hiding behind the bushes. Sania, who had co
