MIRA He doesn’t tell me, but I know it. Everything depends on what will happen at the Emperor’s Jubilee Celebration… This is a test for me and if I fail it, Derrien will be the one suffering the consequences. Well, and me too. Dargen will be against us whatever happens. And only gods know what’s inside the Emperor’s head. I grit my teeth thinking that it was Tristan who put me into this position, making me a symbol of this damn war. I could have been just another pretty Akyrian wife here, happily married to the archduke and leading a peaceful existence with the man I love. But it’s just not happening for me… War... This war is…complicated. I can guess that the Emperor would want to use me in some way for his own propaganda… That’s why he wants to see me so urgently in his pala

