“My mother had it built,” Sorin said, and she turned to face him at that, to give him her full attention. “She loved her people and loved ruling by my father’s side, but she was from a small village near the Xylon Forest in the southern part of our territory and missed the forest terribly. So my father gave her this space to build her own little forest. He called it the Princess’s Garden. It spans half the roof of the palace.

