Kiara:

I opened my eyes to the sound of a bird chirping on my window.

It took me a few seconds to register where I was when I realized that this was not my chamber back home and that I had left the palace last night.

My eyes widened when I realized that my mother had lost her child and I had left her alone to deal with whatever wrath father was going to throw her way, only to remember that I was exiled by my father because mother had lost the baby in the first place, the look mother had given me as if silently begging me to leave...