Back Where 346
She had said I should bring him home, and I did. The ashes of my father rode with me in the urn when I returned to my kingdom.

At the royal stable I alighted, then went straight to the catacombs. Many tombs lined the hall; my father’s niche was empty.

Lycans bury their dead, we do not burn them, but I wanted him to suffer. That was why I have lit the torch, watched his body burn to ash, and placed the urn where he never belonged.

But tonight I brought him back him. I placed the urn now in his tomb where he truly belongs and closed the tomb gently, stood there a long moment, then turned and walked away.

Strangely, a weight lifted off me after that. Still, I knew more awaited me tonight.

On my way to the dining hall I opened the letter Jurrek Bane had given me. I read, and my steps faltered. It was correspondence between Varyn Ashmere and Kaela Yadev.

Varyn asked a favor, repayment for being sold to Blackwater five years ago. The price he requested was a potion that would end a pregnancy without killing the mother.