The sun's rays slowly began to sting.Odette was currently in Rion's study. She carefully stared at the image of a large open scroll on the table. If one looked closely, one could see that it was the picture was a map. While Odette tried to read the map, Rion who was seated across the table watched Odette as well as Trish who now stood beside Rion.Odette was currently looking for the name of her country. After breakfast this morning, Rion asked where Odette lived because he would send Odette home if Odette wanted to go home. But when Odette mentioned the name of the city and country, the man didn't understand at all.Odette was annoyed because she felt Rion was playing with her. Rion no longer knew how to make Odette understand that the country she mentioned didn't exist. So, he finally invited Odette to look at the map to find her own country.Odette had been looking at the map for an hour but couldn't find the country she was looking for. In fact, she realized that all the name

"Do you have any copper or silver coins? I don't have enough change for these gold coins." "I only have this coin. Is there a bank around here or can you tell me where to exchange this money, Aunty?" From a table, Odette watched and listened to Anwen's interaction with the middle-aged woman. The woman was the owner of the diner that Odette and Anwen were stopping at now. When they arrived at the village, Anwen invited Odette to have lunch first before they continued their journey. In addition, Anwen also bought supplies for dinner because Anwen said that they would arrive in the forest by night time. However, when Anwen wanted to pay for all her groceries, the shop owner didn't have enough change for the money Anwen gave her. Odette noticed the gold coins that Anwen had placed on the table as well as some of the copper coins that the shop owner had issued. Those coins also looked ancient, just like the clothes worn by everyone that Odette saw there. "Fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fif

Rion, who was followed by Trish, spurred his dark horse very fast. His hazel eyes shone sharply at the direction ahead, as if he wanted to cut all the distance between him and Anwen quickly. "Why are you always so desperate? What if you get hurt?" he muttered to himself as he remembered Anwen's smiling face. From behind, Trish watched the king's back closely. Then, before long, he smiled and turned his attention back to the road. Dawn had turned to dusk and they had finally entered the forest. Rion, who saw the former bonfire on the river bank, immediately stopped his horse. "Looks like Princess Anwen and Miss Odette rested here last night," Trish said, looking at the burnt logs and food wrappers. Rion also noticed the same thing. But after five seconds, he pulled on the horse's reins again. Meanwhile, Anwen and Odette had exited the forest and arrived in a clear area. On the back of the horse that was still running, Odette was surprised to see bloodstains scattered in various p

Rion wiped Anwen's tears and said, "No. You are my sister and I will always love you. So stop crying." "Is that true?" Anwen looked at Rion with her wet eyes. "Of course," Rion smiled. Anwen hugged Rion again. "I love you very much, Brother," she said. "Me too." "Brother, don't hate me, okay." "No. Never." *** Little Anwen, who was thrown from the horse, was now eleven years old. From behind the pillars of a dark room lit only by two torches in the corner, Anwen peeked out. CRACK! CRACK! Anwen was shocked and shuddered every time the whip struck the body of a woman with golden hair and purple eyes, whose wrists and legs were bound by chains. CRACK! "Cough." The woman vomited a lot of blood. The blood covered almost all of her chin and seeped down to her neck. "Why did you have to do all this …? Sob …" Anwen wept as she watched her mother received a hundred lashes. Time passed. After the room was quiet, Anwen came out of her hiding and walked over to her mother, who wa

The Randle was a forest that was often dubbed the forbidden forest because it was a den of wild monsters and mythical creatures. Despite the fact, many people were still desperate to enter the forest. Odette walked while stroking the upper arm of her left hand. She felt goosebumps when she saw the trees that were growing so big. She estimated that the trees were as high as one hundred to two hundred meters with tens of meters of trunk thickness. Many of the roots of these trees were sticking out, restraining other trees in the vicinity. Some of them even wrapped around and strangled their own trunks. After looking around for a while, Odette looked up at the leaves above. The leaves were spread wide and overlapped each other tightly, that they blocked the path of sunlight, and because of that the atmosphere in the forest became dark, damp, cold, and foggy. Odette's blue eyes now turned to see the fruits hanging from the branch. The shape of the fruit looked strange and Odette had n