Alena stood at the balcony and looked out on the ocean. She sighed heavily and then took out the letter that had been sitting in her desk for a long time now. She unfolded it and read it carefully before folding it again and putting it back into its envelope. The envelope fell out of her hand onto the floor, but not too loud, it didn’t attract attention from any of the guards outside her room.

Alena turned around and headed inside her room, sitting down at her desk and opened her drawer. She searched through everything until she found what she was looking for. She grabbed a small vial...