Damien “Andros” Krul Crown Prince Heir to the throne I saw her before she even noticed us approaching. She was so small. Holding the bars of her balcony with even smaller hands. She looked trapped almost as she admired the moon and the woods. Her face was almost entirely made up with her eyes. Big golden eyes that held so many emotions. She looked peaceful yet worried, but then amazed but also scared. I remember thinking… How could someone as small as her have that many emotions? And when she finally noticed us, her eyes widened even more and the excitement that came was so innocent and so adorable, I couldn’t look away. When she gasps, catching my father’s attention, and she waves back at him, something in my chest pulled and twisted. It wasn’t a mate bond— something my father