Part 1

After consulting with the elders and describing the smell of Xellma to the council, they voted that Mira needed to inform the Ashe family of the events she experienced in the Far Frozen North. Princess Syndra's crimes were great, but it was decided that the Moonfall Prince would choose her punishment.

As Mira traversed the rivers and lakes of Karand, slowly making her way south, she wondered what kind of person Verka Ashe would be. You could only learn so much from reading about someone, and the libraries of home were rather sparse on so-called foreign born rusalki like the Ashe royal family. The mitigating factor of being the daughter of the Moonfall Prince did mean she had more written about her than most. Mostly they described the horrific experiments she constantly approved by one of the most strikingly evil military units on Karand, the Imperial Chemical Weapons Division.

The stories she heard of what they did bothered her, but what she experienced from the Elves was even worse. If it wasn't for that demon, she would have died for certain.