While the palace was busy with its investigation into the death of Alaric von Ravenshade, the late Count of Ravenshade. At the Campbell household, a letter arrived, its seal bearing the hand of Haley and Emily's parents. Its presence was sudden, jarring, and strangely ill-timed, as though it had slipped out of the shadows just when life had finally begun to settle.
Emily was the one who received it. A courier placed it into her hands, and for a long moment she simply stood there, staring at the folded paper as though it might burn her.
The handwriting was unmistakable, a ghost from her past that she hadn't expected to see again. Two long years had passed since she last heard anything from them. Two years of silence, two years of waiting without even a scrap of news, and two years without a single coin of financial support that once used to flow back home.
