(You were your father's youngest daughter, after your father's death and then a few years later, after your stepmother's death. Inheritance went to your stepmother's wishes, her young girl who was now a powerful and wealthy woman who completely controlled you, you had to stand and obey so that you might one day own your father's inheritance) Lady Arlian (your half-sister) while immersed in her dark satin clothes and standing next to the curtain gave you a nasty look: "Tonight at the ball, I don't want to see any color or presence of your presence in the hall, you are not allowed to company any young man." Her little three-year-old son was playing around the net of her long skirt, a thin and pale boy who was often deprived of his mother's attention