"What do you mean, they want my mother?" Finn asked as he stared across the war room at Cyrus. He had just brought two armies together with Praelia. They were stronger than they had been just a few short days ago but they still were up against a formidable army. The threat of the daemons was enough to send even the fiercest soldier into a fit of fear.
"Your mother had a woman killed, one of your father's mistresses," Cyrus began. "You probably remember her as the black-haired woman everyone called Anna. Her name was Savannah. Here in Praelia she was one of the middle class but she came here from a different kingdom. She was meant to be married to another king, from another kingdom but she ended up here. Somehow she met the king, your father, and they fell in love. When she died, the king
