They came to wake Mira early that morning, even before the sun had started rising. She had stared out of her window all day yesterday, ever so excited. All the carriages had come rumbling across the causeway in the distance, all the different flags flying in bright colours before them, carried by beautiful horses and gallant knights and folks were busy around the citadel making everything pretty. It was only sometimes that she got sad because she wanted to tell Daddy about it and then she remembered that horrid pumpkin on the wall was Daddy and she started crying again until Nanna Mimi told her off. Mama pulled her up on her lap now and again, rocking her and singing songs for her like she was a baby again, and Mira let her because Nanna Mimi said it made Mama feel better to do it, even th
