Seraphina stood in front of her mirror in the closet, as Coraline and Joel dressed her up for her next meeting with the lower court.
Her eyes were drained of any emotion.
Coraline and Joel exchanged worried looks but they knew better than to say anything.
That was when Joel slid a ring on her finger which had her sucking in her breath.
It was the same ring that she was wearing when she had dressed herself up for meeting the lower court for the first time.
A memory from that day infiltrated her mind before she could stop herself.
She thought of how happy she had been and the way Drystan had been by her side and the way he had loved and cared for her every step of the way. She thought of how she had been so nervous just as the two of them had been walking down to the lower courts
