The Forgotten Field

I pray every dayfor this love to die.
That I may love you only until today,
and by tomorrow, may this love be dead.

-Born of an affair, the ill-fated imperial princess Thalia Roem Guirta.

She grows up twisted beneath the neglect of indifferent parents, hostile half-siblings,
and servants who look upon her with contempt.
To survive, Thalia learns to protect herself by baring her thorns at everyone who comes near.
And yet, even she becomes utterly defenseless before one man.

That man is Varkas ...