Her name is Garnet Til Alexandros XVII, heir to the Kingdom of Alexandria and proud daughter of Her Majesty Queen Brahne. She is well-bred, well-versed, well-spoken and spoken well of. She has no siblings, and nor will she ever. She is a princess, and must always remain aware of her hands, her shoulders, the straightness of her limbs and the shapes of her smiles. She is sheltered—cloistered—and knows she must at least try not to resent the walls around her.

And when she is lonely, which she too often is... she sings. It is a song she does not remember being taught, and a comfort she is too afraid to question.


Her name is Dagger. She is the one who chose it, and she will wield it as her weapon. It is the name that will see her safely delivered to Lindblum, and the name she will turn against her mother's enemies to finally return things to the way they used to be. To the way things were before mother's eyes became cold, before father had left them both behind, before that strange man had appeared at court, before she'd begun dreaming of storm-tossed seas and—but there had never been a time before then, had there.


Her name is Sarah, and finally, she is home.