Xena Eight days before the Epsilon returns. It feels like a lifetime ago when my world was perfect. I guess it is true that to whom much is given, much is expected. I am literally leaving amongst people who hate me, yet I try to understand. Not that I have much choice. Xaden and I have more guards than the president. Xael has made certain that I am never alone with Xaden. I am having breakfast when he walks in with Fiona and Gwen clinging to him. Xael is like a love-sick puppy around her. It is worse than before, and everyone is praising their mate bond. “Our vicious witch of a Luna,” Fiona sneers. I have been thinking of how she and I will be when this is all in the open. Is she going to claim to have been bewitched? “You know how to fix that, Princess. Just speak to your brother.

