SERPENTINE
**An Unfinished Life—Audiomachine**
Serpentine watched from the city walls as Ember's carriage began its departure to the port city. And something about that scene reminded her of the day nineteen years ago, when she got on a carriage to depart from Andals to Thalor in the name of marriage.
Except she wasn't sending Ember away to marriage, she was sending her to a game far more dangerous than a man and woman speaking I dos to a chain of union that more often than not brought destruction.
Just like her own marriage.
"Nada said her nightmares still persist?" She asked Syria while her eyes still zeroed in on the carriage that was now at a distance although still visible just like an ant.
