Aariana's POV
Aariana did not sleep.
The words on the old document kept returning to her.
The Calder bloodline was never erased.
She sat beside the window of her room, the document spread across the table before her.
A candle burned low beside it.
She had read the sentence so many times that she knew every mark on the page.
Still, something bothered her.
The council had known about her bloodline.
They had known about Wren.
They had known enough to summon her.
But why now?
Why, after five years of silence?
Aariana folded the document carefully.
Someone had wanted her to find it.
That possibility bothered her even more.
She stood and crossed the room.
Wren was asleep in the adjoining chamber. Two of her guards were stationed outside his door.
She had ordered them there afte
