Noelani POV
...THREE DAYS PRIOR...
Serafina and I were in the densest part of the forest, trying to change into something ‘respectable’ as my father called it. We had just finished our secret training session on the outskirts of the forest surrounding our kingdom and needed to get out of our sweaty gear and back into our court dresses before we needed to meet with our parents for luncheon.
Training for females in our kingdom was forbidden. But Sera and I had been determined to find a way around that. Several years ago, we had stumbled on a secret gathering of women of varying species who trained together under the tutelage of the retired Delta, Adam. He had worked us hard today, and my muscles were screaming after an entire morning of combined training with the sword and hand to hand c
