“Then I will fight at your side, Verena. I will fight for you as I once fought for your mother.” She pressed her palm to the cavern floor. “You are not just an heir, not just a warrior.” A whisper of her power rippled through the stone. “You are the last daughter of Veyrith. The next Queen of Marmoris. Then, ever so slowly, she lowered her head. “You are the ruler that will unite us all.”
