The note said;
Hello! I took your adoptive parents. Why? Because I can. I want to see what you are made of. If you want your parents alive, meet me by the lake near the castle two hours before the ball starts. I'll be waiting.
That was it. No signature, nothing to tell me who did it. It is making my blood boil, like literally. I can feel my blood boil inside of me. It is fueling something else inside of me. Something sinister in origin. I need to calm down because my instincts are telling me to calm down or something bad will happen around me. Something that I will regret for the rest of my life. I closed my eyes, took several deep breaths, and tried to find the calm center in me.
Once I found it, I opened my eyes and trained myself for the next two days. I trained like there's no tomor
