**Rise—Hans Zimmer**
The entrance of Varde Elarion was what eventually brought the banquet to an uneventful end. Although the king wouldn't have ever thought that would have been the case.
In his mind, even if the Duke of Shantaville refused to marry his son to Elara, then there must be many who were waiting in line to claim the title of a royal relative.
That was until the Varde Elarion, revered star reader from Mastic entered the room, causing all breaths to still… including Ember's.
For however had the Queen forged an alliance with a woman even Ember had heard of when she was still with the Azure Witches. A seer from the revered Dome who was sung as a living legend for her uncanny ability to read the skies and everything that appeared on it.
All of a sudden, the Queen who had never seemed ordinary to Ember seemed even more mysterious. It was clear that the woman whom she now called mother was far deeper than she could imagine, but Ember couldn't imagine what.
