After the trials of Mustafa, Fernando had gone back to Vaziria. His people needed him to be there. They needed him to take up Mustafas' palace and rule Vaziria with them. They wanted him to be their voice of reason, but Fernando had other plans.
He didn't want to be in the government. He just wanted to lead a normal life, one in which he recovered the time he had lost when he was a slave. He wanted to know what it meant to be a normal vampire in Vaziria, but there was just one downside to that.
He was not a normal vampire and nothing about their circumstances was normal. They had caught Mustafa only to realize he had been a fake Mustafa, a child snatched away from his parents and forced to grow with magic and be the person they all hated.
