"Please don't go to him, Ciara. Please, I am begging you, do not marry the prince. You're my fate, I can feel it. Please don't leave and give into the demands of the king." Marcus begged, eyes bloodshot and puffy from crying since he found out his forbidden love was meant to wed another. Ciara looked longingly into the eyes of her soulmate, "Please do not make this any harder than it already is, Marcus. You know I have a duty to the kingdom and to my king above all else. Even above my own happiness". As the star-crossed pair looked into each other’s eyes, trying to commit each other’s features to memory as best as possible, they did not utter anything else. They knew their love was destined to fail, but neither of them could make their hearts understand that they would not be able to live their love. That would never be accepted by the Court of Immortals.