Chapter Three The evening stars hung listlessly in the dark, cool, night sky. Artemis sat in the large bay window in the west wing of the palace, a place he visited whenever he needed solace. It had been his routine since he was younger and his sister had been spirited away from the company of his presence. Like Alder, Ajua, his sister, had been forced to endure the long and arduous sessions with the royal tutor. As crowned princess, it was her fate to someday become the ruler of Calico. He remembered how he hated not being able to spend time with his beloved twin and how she was too exhausted to do much of anything beyond sleeping when her