I began reading, skimming through daily observations and personal reflections until entries about Marc's father caught my attention. *April 18th - Council meeting today. Gregory Stone becoming more aggressive in his positioning. Edward believes he's gathering support for a policy shift that would consolidate more power to force our hand in allowing the betrothal of our daughter Marabelle to his son Marc but there is something about that boy like their is some kind of dark shadow that follows him I’m not sure what kind or what it exists but its as if someone has been poisoning that boy’s young mind. My mate and I have discussed this at length and we have agreed that we want our daughter to chose her own path. We hope that she will find her true mates one day as she seems to have been gran

