Was she really about to do this? Ask the Latharian emperor himself for help? Well, not in quite so many words, but that was what it amounted to. She needed his help to figure out a way she could stay here without feeling that she’d betrayed her own people.
Dani shivered as she sat looking around while waiting for the emperor to see her. The room was as opulent as she’d have expected an antechamber in an emperor’s suite, with low, plush couches and fine wooden furniture that wouldn’t have looked out of place in any ancient palace on Earth. She assumed anyway. A colony brat, she’d never been to one, but she’d seen pictures.
She’d been given a book on princes and princesses when she was a child. She’d loved to look through the pictures of castles and dresses, her childish imagination painti
