*Ainslee*

I remember riding this way not so long ago to see my family and demolish the Blacks. It would have been a happy time, except for the fact I’d been engaged to Axel Brodcraz.

Now I’m unhappy again, because I am leaving the man I love forever and possibly my son as well. No, unhappy doesn’t cover it. I’m crushed. Shattered.

And angry.

I don’t see the landscape. I don’t touch my dinner at the inn where we stay overnight. I don’t sleep, either. I am just numb as we travel all the way to the middle of Longclaw territory.

The carriage stops before a new structure that is...