Everything in her life had seemed to be progressing perfectly, until she received the news of King Marconius's sudden death, followed by the royal decree that she was to become Lumiel's fourth wife.
There was one specific concept within noble society that Morgana loathed above all others: the vile, age-old tradition of essentially selling off daughters to forge political alliances, callously using them as mere bargaining tools.
She had sworn long ago that she would never, under any circumstances, allow herself to be used in such a degrading manner. She had never even needed to voice this fierce sentiment to her father, for Arges already knew his headstrong daughter perfectly well. He understood her deepest desires and refused to be the kind of man who would ever forcefully sell his own flesh and blood to some arrogant noble's son for the sake of a flimsy political treaty.
