Two days before the audience with Queen Amber...
Count Burgundy slumped to the ground, a look of horror on his face as he gazed at the blood-stained box before him. Beside him, a weeping woman struggled to cope with the devastating scene.
"You assured me that Era would be safe! You promised that our precious daughter would be protected in the palace! I warned you about Aurianna, but you didn't listen!" Countess Burgundy's glare at her husband was intense, her hands covered in blood as she clung to the box.
"I believed..." he began.
