My Princess Royal, My Betrayer
On the night of Lovers' Eve, war beacons blazed along the frontier. The enemy pressed toward the border, and Avington Pass hung on the brink of collapse.
I, Russ Denton, wrote through the night, sending an urgent letter to the capital to beg my wife for reinforcements. She was Clarisse Kaylock, the Princess Royal, the only person in all of Millington who could lead the iron cavalry to break the siege.
Her reply was frantic in every word. "Don't be afraid, Russ. I'm coming."
Yet three days passed. Beacon smoke blotted out the sky beyond the pass, the city ran out of arrows and food, and still no reinforcements came.
I knelt on the ground with a broken spear, drenched in blood, and sent pi