26 years ago...

Alesetar starts pacing back and forth after he receives a letter from his one love. He can't believe the news he just got; he's going to be a father. How will he hide this from the king and queen? Gypsies and faes were not supposed to mix, and he knew better, but he couldn't help it. He had tried to resist, but she quickly became everything and more to him. He had no regrets in that aspect, only how to protect them now.

He runs and hides the letter on the floor, bored with all the others he has received from Charity. After putting the letter in its spot, he covers it up with a rug and heads out to do his shift of patrolling. He will see her tonight, he thought to himself; he always sees her on the first full moon of the month.

As he makes his way to the portal and sits in the tree that is next to the portal, once he gets comfortable, he waits for his love to show up. As he sits there, he starts to doze off. And he is awakened sometime later when the moon is full. But what he awakened to was not something he was expecting.

He sees his brother and the king standing there with his letters in his hand. He jumps off the tree branch and lands on his feet. "Your highness, I can explain," he starts to say in a panic but stops when he looks up. The blood in his body turns to ice when he sees Nokken walking up behind the king, holding Charity with a knife to her throat.

"I have known for months that something was up with you, but I never thought you would do something so impure to ruin and destroy our bloodline with something like this. Our mother and father would be so disappointed in you if they were still around." The king says to him as he walks up to Alesetar.