“Go easy on your brother. xxx When she saw him enter, she dashed to him, hugging him and crying. “Mother, I would never miss lessons! When the other woman offered her the girl child, she refused to take the oddly silent girl. He will be your lord someday, and if you beat him up too much, it might backfire.” Liana shook her head and raced off toward her brother. A scream suddenly tore through the air, shredding the silence like paper. “I believe I will. Another woman caught it in a spare bit of cotton cloth that had been retrieved beforehand. She glanced behind her, and when she saw nobody following her, raced to the back entrance of the castle that they all belonged to.
