8 Raerdel spent much of the day in her room. She didn’t know how to approach the topic of what happened with Sin in his dream. She took an unnaturally long time bathing and brushing out her hair. It was growing out longer than she had ever experienced it. She frowned as she looked down at her stomach. The scars from her previous mistake were still very visible. Pulling on a layered dress that sufficiently covered the marks on her neck and cleavage areas, she finally came out of the bedroom. Immediately, she was alerted to loud noises downstairs. Deciding against being a coward, she took the stairs down and presented a very brave façade as she joined the crowd in the foyer. Sin was dressed in a black, almost metal-looking material and was surrounded by similarly dressed men. All of them we

