Lissana had wanted to return to her kingdom; she wanted to fight alongside her parents. But she had never seen what a war was, she had never seen a battle.
It wasn't until that moment, as she witnessed all the devastation a battle leaves behind—the deaths and the pain it entails—that she understood why her mother wanted to keep her away from it all.
As a princess, she felt guilty for all those deaths, for not having protected the people of her kingdom.
Tarik approached her when he saw she had stood still, looking at the corpses that had been gathered in one place, and asked her, "Are you okay?"
"Yes."
"Well, it doesn't seem like it."
"I was just thinking that if I had been here when the battle started or if I had arrived a little earlier, none of this would have hap
