Elena POV

“Months passed just like that. Until Hilda snuck out of the palace one day to go find her master.

But when she got there, the little cottage she’d shared with her master was empty and long abandoned. It was obvious that no one had lived there for a long time.

She asked the townspeople but none of them knew where her master had gone. The only clue they could give her, was that they’d seen a group of soldiers hanging around the entrance of the town a few days before her master ...