Aria's pov
The wind whipped at my face as I raced back to the palace with inhuman speed, my heart pounded in time with the frantic beat of my thoughts.
Eadric… The name alone was enough to send a shiver down my spine, but the rumors I had heard along the way, the whispers that spread like wildfire through the city were what truly chilled me to the bone.
When I heard he had been assassinated, I nearly went mad. The women there sent me questioning looks when all I was thinking was,
Why I had left the palace.
Blood ties to the Blood Mages?
Eadric, tied to the very beings that had brought ruin to our lands for centuries. Half their lineage, they said.
