The sun was already shifting westward as Serene followed Ernacht through the gardens of the Esprit Palace. Her two sisters followed behind her, hand in hand. For a moment, she remembered the first time she met the Queen of Sucroten, the woman who ruled Sucroten Castle and the woman who slowly killed their two mothers.
Serene and her two younger sisters' mothers are also a twin pair. The two of them were beautiful twin girls who caught the attention of the King. But after learning that the two had only given birth to daughters, the King gave them no more attention and the Queen, who could not conceive, exiled them to a small, nameless pavilion.
Until death, the King could not have any more offspring because the Queen continuously killed the pregnant concubines. Serene and her two sisters' mothers were lucky because they were always together, so it was difficult to kill both of them at once.
