A Witch!

Ave and Seraphina were in the deep deserted part of the palace when they heard the emergency alarm drums and knew they had finally realized that she had escaped the room. The air around the palace grew tense, and she felt it from where she was. They had made sure to walk in the part where no one would see them, and she wished her injured thighs would heal fast enough so she could walk and do things properly.

She had just learned that a few days after Caelan's coronation, the Empress had given Thalia out for marriage to a middle-aged man who showed interest in her and bargained to give the Empress three hundred soldiers in exchange for the princess. And Elara had sent the princess away the very next day, kicking and crying, but she had been forced into the carriage against her will, while her elder brother remained abandoned in the inner part of the palace, sleeping for eternity.