The cabin’s door was softly knocked, a letter slipped through the opening underneath. It caught the attention of the Princess, stopping her current routine - why did the carrier leave without a word? Sudden, yet faint, Eriantiel felt fear. Something had happened. She rushed over to obtain the letter, ripping its seal, reading it over. Again and again.
Eriantiel was with her niece only a saint's day ago, attempting to be of aid. To comfort her, to remind Nóruiel of her bravery and determination - in hopes of saving her from any harm of the war, or perhaps the King who haunted them. The Princess had given her options: to run, to hide, a new life with a new face. But it was never a choice of death.
Her family had failed her, her brothers, her father - she had failed Nóruiel.
But Eriantiel realized something, there was no curse amongst the two, the curse was within someone else. Someone of true evil and cruelness - the false shepherd. The one who had thrown her out; he had done the same with Nóruiel.
The blood was on his hands.
The Princess Royal grabbed her cloak and her father’s blade.
She knew what to do.