Serenica Ingram was standing on the shore of Oathbreaker's Bay. The Princess was coming home to her, bringing all her friends to celebrate her graduation.
Serenica was one piece of paper away from being a real doctor.
Of course she had taken more than a few extra courses that had inflated the time she had spent on her studies, but there had been no news from the Great East, and it had only been seven years since their last encounter with the Maroon King. Serenica dared to hope that the tyrant had forgotten his threats.
When the boats approached her, her heart made a giant, joyful leap.
Ligur was there.
