Sadie POV
It was a bright and sunny day. It seemed nonsensical for a day such as today. At least, that's what I thought as I stood there, clad in a black mourning dress that billowed around me because of the breeze, staring down at the coffin being buried into the ground. All around me stood fae of different social standing, my father residing over all of us, a grave expression on his face. Tears shimmered in my eyes. I wished Deidre was here, to help me make sense of it all, but she was long gone and I'd had to spend a great amount of time without her, and without a tutor that had been promised to me. My delicate hands clenched into fists as I struggled to keep my breathing shallow and even. Yet again, I had failed to keep someone safe and had failed to heal someone who had desperately n
