Ariana
I was calm at breakfast. I was even calm as we started moving through the border patrols. My nerves started chewing at me the moment we stepped through the veil that hid the homelands from the rest of the world. By the time we reached the castle, I was on the verge of losing that breakfast.
We settled in and had lunch, but the peace didn’t last long. Before we even finished our lunch, I could hear the movement outside the dining room. Whoever was waiting outside the double doors of the dining room seemed impatient. My mother told the guards to let whoever it was wait in her office while we finished our meal.
I didn’t pay the visitor much mind until the dining room doors opened. His scent was unmistakable and, for the first time since I met Conner, a shiver ran down the back of m
