ROYAL BLOOD
Hamstung Imperial Palace.
Blood streaked the floor and smeared across the walls; it was like an abattoir, only that it was humans that were slaughtered.
Painfully among those humans laid Friya's husband, King Orain of Hamstung.
Every instinct screamed to flee, but Friya's feet would not obey. All she could do was stand there, swallowed by the weight of what she had seen, the horror settling deep into her bones.
Friya froze at the threshold. Her stomach churned, her hands trembled, and the cold numbness that crept through her limbs made it feel as if the world had stopped moving.