It'd been two years since she was home, but all she felt was dread as she yanked the horse's reins and it neighed pulling to a stop by the stables.
"Not on the hay!" Coral, the stable's master yelled, stomping his feet as he approached her. "Do you have any idea how long it took to gather those, peasant?!"
Nymeria narrowed her gaze at Coral, and she pulled off her hood. "Repeat that again, Coral."
He drew up short, halting with such suddenness, one would think there was a wall barring his path. His lips parted and his maroon gaze widened. With a yell that shook the stables, he announced, “The Princess has returned!”
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“Where is father?” Nymeria asked as the servant fixed her hair. Stupid lot. She missed her first chambermaid, Lysandra. She was as useless as the rest, but th
