Chapter 6
The forest stretched out for acres, as far as the eye could see - across the realm of Isenore and straight to the mountains bordering Dreach-Dhoun. It was a widespread sea of gray, dying trees and rotting foliage. Alixa stood in the window studying it with a forlorn smile. It hadn’t always been this way. She remembered well visiting her mother here in these very chambers and looking out over the majestic canvas filled with greens and reds and shades of gold. She’d thought it, and her mother, the most beautiful things she’d ever seen in her young life. But the life had slowly drained from the forest over the years, along with that of her mother. Now they were both just a fading memory.
It’d been ten years since she lost her mother and she still came to her room often. It hadn’t
