the cold night

To say the events of the past week had unfolded fortuitously would be an understatement, or at least so much was the case where House Akanamar was concerned. The lasting night had brought its own amount of grief to the powers of the Empire, and the public's distress alone had distracted them...

Much of what had been planned could not have been without her. Though she'd failed her haughty task, far too confident far too soon, she'd still set so much in motion... This needed to be done. And now, even now as the plan began to unfold and the light was made absent from the sky, it was time...