Violet: A Message

23 September, 1348. Magdaline Castle, Islia

She was going to lie with him.

Violet had decided she was going to lie with Prince Leo and give him her virtue. She'd play her trump card and offer him the one thing Ilse wouldn't.

She needed to break the stalemate she currently found herself in. Because every day that passed made it more clear how badly she needed to change the balance of power between her and the prince.

He'd summoned her to his apartments two more times in the past fortnight. It was clear he was arranging trysts with her because Violet was willing to perform acts that other women, except the very humble, would balk at doing.

In public though, she didn't seem to exist for Prince Leo. He didn't dance with her, didn't talk to her, merely nodded and kept walking when their paths crossed.