Third Person's POV
When news of his death in battle arrived, she laughed wildly, then wept just as intensely.
Good riddance, she thought—but why hadn't it been Airella instead?
Still, she took grim satisfaction in the idea that Airella's sons had all perished in the same war. Surely, that would break Airella's heart.
And indeed, Airella eventually went blind from her ceaseless tears.
Later, when Airella's entire family was slaughtered, she felt nothing but schadenfreude.
The wicked always got their comeuppance.
Yet, the man who had tormented her dreams had probably never spared her a single thought in all his years.
But in the dead of night, her dreams always returned to that first moment she had laid eyes on him—her heart pounding, her face flushed with shy admiration.
It was the
