Your love is forbidden. If people found out about the two of you, you’d likely both be executed. But that doesn’t stop you from loving him. Every night, you still meet up with Connor, the prince of the enemy kingdom, beneath the shade of the willow tree.

The field you two meet in used to be a battlefield. All life there was destroyed in one of the never ending wars between your lands. The tree is the only life left.

Now, he sits there under the shade, waiting for you to inevitably come.