She finds that they live in the poorer side of the town, and the girl tells her that there hasn’t been any of the potion left to give to the poorest members. Finley, Nyfain, and Hadriel ride into the village, and while Nyfain goes to deal with the council and the wealthy, Finley goes to check in on the girl’s mom. One afternoon, a young girl runs to the castle and asks for the prince, asking for them to save her mom. In the meantime, Finley also gets her garden worked on by Hadriel and two other individuals and they are unable to heal the roses, which is when Finley realizes that Nyfain had been coming into the garden and singing to the flowers–missing his mom. This helps speed up the process of growing the plants and making them healthy for what they need. She also realizes that he is a Syflora–a person with a talent for singing to the plants that gets them to grow quickly. In the meantime, Finley and Nyfain grow closer, and she continues to get aroused by him. Soon, the villagers are making a lot of requests for the everlass drink and healing. They continue to work together, and Finley devises a method of storing the everlass mixture in dried form to be then sent to the villagers in order for them to add the water and maximize it’s potency. She agrees, and Nyfain takes her in his beast form to the edge of the forest, and roars.

And secondly, Finley will have to play the part of someone who is kidnapped and forced to be in the castle, to give an explanation as to why she’s in the castle. While she had been back at home, she had encountered Jedrek–another villager, who wants to marry her, and who said that he will speak with the demons to get her under a spell to marry him–and he alongside his pals had been harassing her. First, she is going to have to appear dead to the village in order to protect her from some villagers. Nyfain asks Finley to help him heal the other villages from the sickness, and she agrees to help him however, he adds that they have to play their parts. She returns to living in the village, and continues to go to the everlass field, sharing stories with Nyfain through a letter, until a situation with some villagers makes her go back to Nyfain for safety. She also tells Nyfain that her father has been cured from the sickness thanks to the crowded everlass. She ultimately finds her way back to the castle, and helps Nyfain with his healing.

She manages to track him by the blood, seeing that he’s still defending the villages in his very precarious condition–she manages to follow the blood all the way to the edge of the forest around a different village, where she encounters two individuals speaking about Nyfain and how badly he is hurt.

What’s It About: Finley leaves her home in search if Nyfain, knowing that he’s gotten a several hour head-start on her.

A Throne of Ruin by K.F. Breene