KATHERINE

The carriage moved through the bustling streets.

I couldn’t stop looking through the sheer curtain at the people passing by, watching the lively sway of the night markets.

The air was thick with festivity. It was my first time visiting these lands, outside of Everhart’s Duchy and the territories of other nobles.

Suddenly, we came to a halt, perhaps because something was blocking the carriage’s path.

My attention fell on a pair of lovers standing in front of a trinket stall.

The man lo