LARA It would be a lie to say that I wasn’t scared to knock on the door of the Lady of the South after the things I found out about her from the other maids. Gianna Vensal was considered the beauty of her lands. Even though there were numerous other beautiful maidens in the South, her family was the most prominent and she was even considered as a bride for the crown prince for the Akyrian Crown Prince. All that was before she received the dark mark – a sign that appeared on the chest when a girl was chosen by the dark lords of The Gerdian Empire as one of the candidates for the Dark Selection. Only women who could accept dark magic into their bodies received those. And it was considered a sign of great luck. Since, apparently, marriage to a gerdian lord seemed everybody’s dream here. A

