**Veronica (POV) ** [Kaarmanet, Riba's Mansion on Western Borders of the Forest of Wonders] I finally did it! Everything was going as I wanted! Five hundred years of the wait were finally coming to an end. I glided through the walls of my mother's mansion to reach my room, the darkest room in the mansion with the best view. I could directly look at my clone crows hovering silently above the trees blocking the sun and the moons completely. And my body was stored safely in the coffin waiting for the time when I could claim my love's soul. I was ecstatic, to say the least. After so many failed attempts, no one could stop me now! I walked through the sealed door of my room, that no living creature could break, into my beloved darkness. I wanted to celebrate and maybe let a few of my golems

