The next day was another flurry of preparations. It was as if the darkness had never reared its shadowed head at dance rehearsal the day before. If it hadn’t been for the excess of guards plastered in every corridor, you’d never know that the castle was in great peril. It was possible that people responsible for her wedding coronation just hoped that completing the union would once again secure the kingdom.
The darkness hadn’t been seen for at least as long as her father had been king. Mina was unsure of how long it had been, but didn’t have time to toil in the records hall of the library to find out. Her father, however, seemed completely unbothered. She shouldn’t have been surprised that he didn’t breathe a word of it to her over dinner the day before. He’d never exactly cared for her
