(King Alstin’s P.O.V)
The moment I felt an outsider cross the border; I knew something was different yet familiar at the same time. I couldn’t place it and it made me anxious, and I don’t like to be anxious. I took over the Kingdom of Eglarest from my father about 75 years ago, when I was 50 years old. My father wanted to be able to spend time with his sister, Amelie, when she ended up mated to the shifter king, Conri, when I was in my 40s. Amelie and my father were actually half-siblings, their father having had an affair with a spell caster years after my father was born. When the spell caster found out she was pregnant, she had initially wanted to get rid of the fetus, however; my grandfather told her that if she went through with the pregnancy he would give her enough gold
