Cara tried to lose herself in her tasks, but the dark elf found that she could not concentrate on the duties
before her. Her heart was with the tall rider who had so abruptly entered and just as quickly left and had so greatly complicated her simple country life – her mind had accompanied her heart on the
journey, so the lovely maiden had spent much of the morning staring into the soup bowls and wash basins. Her dark green eyes retained the vision of her prince as he rode so majestically down the road
toward another world at Castle Lyndyn.