•Dahlia• My parents have always been strict with me. Everyone in Night Garden Pack knew that my father was an extremely strict person. Even when he dealt with the warriors in the pack, it was always with an iron fist. Not to talk of handling the daughter who had destroyed all the chances of him getting the heir that he’d always dreamed of. In fact, he was even more strict with me than other people. He was always a ‘punish first, ask for explanation later’ kind of man. But the latter part of that expression never applied to me. All my lessons were learned in accompaniment with a braided leather whip by my father. My mother wasn’t much better, she only worked with her hands and words. My parents stopped hitting me only after I got married to River at the age of twenty-one. From then,

