Among the men, women, girls, boys, and infants taken, someone stood in their midst, taking in and walking in her glory even when she was in the face of so much danger. She had no crown, nor did she have a queenly attire on, but even in the dark, royalty and power hovered around her like an invisible cloak. The whimpering and cries of women and children reduced drastically at her presence, it was hard to miss the woman that had graced them with her presence. Though a man was beside her, she stood out in all of her glory and it overshadowed whoever was beside her. Not everyone in Hadien knew the queen of the great empire, they could only see her from afar and most of them did so whenever they went over to the castle to get an important announcement that rarely ever happened. And because of t
