ZINA
Zina finally managed to put Yuri to sleep in her chambers. She was patting the girl gently on her back while listening to her easy breathing when Seraph's grim face, wiped off any playfulness, filled her vision.
"First it was good news, now I guess it's bad news."
Seraph shook her head. "Not exactly bad news." She said.
"What is it?" Zina asked almost immediately in a small voice, careful not to wake Yuri. "Out with it already."
Seraph stared at Yuri sleeping on her lap uncomfortably before she spoke. "His majesty has slated the sentencing and execution of the BloodMoon's today."
"Why today?" Zina asked, although to be quite honest, she couldn't care less when the execution would be carried out. She was more worried about how Yuri would react to her mother being punished because Zina knew that Daemon intended on punishing the woman for sure.