*Amaya*

I didn’t even think about it, I simply reacted and threw my arms around the maid. It’d only been a few months since my birthday, the ball, and my banishment but it felt as if it had been multiple lifetimes. I almost died twice.

Finally, it felt as if I had a tangible reminder of the life I used to live, life within these castle walls. It had felt like a mausoleum, frozen and abandoned with fragments of the life once lived haunting the ...