–FOUR YEARS LATER-
**Experience—Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope, I Virtuosi Italiani**
Ember: 14 years old
Serpentine: 30 years old
Ember would like to say the last four years had been easy. That trading a life of servitude for the title of Princess Royal had brought ease. But the truth was, Princess Elara Thorne had it worse than the servant Ember AshFall—just… a different kind of worse.
Four years ago after her dramatic comeback with Queen Serpentine, a different kind of life met her. Yes, she was served and tended to as any princess would, but there was another side to her life.
The side that saw the Queen temporarily isolating them from the world.
Her mother, not wanting to take a chance with her life, immediately had her move permanently to her Queen's quarters where she was basically confined, her life cut off from the outside world.