Disclaimer: I don't own Narnia or any characters you may recognize from the books or the movies, I wish I did but I don't... I also don't own the Narnian Calendar. It belongs to Elecktrum who was kind enough to let me borrow it for my story. Her own stories are awesome and you should go read them too.

Summary: 21 Yule 1006 will see the first lunar eclipse to occur on the Winter Solstice in four hundred years. Enemies of Narnia rejoice! For the time of the Golden Age will come to an end with the spilling of royal blood and Jadis will be revived!

A/N: If you have not read the first three stories in the A Light in the Darkness main story arc (Awakening, Shadowed, and Revealed), I highly recommend you do so for the full experience. However, if you want to give this one a whirl on its own, you can.

What's Gone on Before

Shot entering a courthouse in our world, a stranger comes to Narnia one year into the Pevensies' reign. This stranger, Katerina Alambiel, gains the trust of young Queen Lucy even though others suspect she might be a witch. Still, she is allowed to remain in Cair Paravel as a guest. Oreius begins to earn her trust as she earns his. When the evil sorcerer, Jannes, takes Lucy, Katerina Alambiel is accused of being an accomplice even as she crafts a plan to rescue the Valiant Queen. Infiltrating the sorcerer's lair, Katerina Alambiel leaves a trail for Oreius and the Kings allowing them to rescue Lucy. Katerina Alambiel pursues and kills Jannes with Oreius' aid (Full story: Awakening).

After six months of finding a niche in the daily life and routine of Cair Paravel (Full story: Shields), Katerina Alambiel is counted as a friend rather than a guest by the Four and by General Oreius. She accompanies High King Peter and Queen Susan on a trip, unaware that another sorcerer intends to frame her as the High King's assassin. Just before parting ways with Susan, dark secrets in Katerina Alambiel's past are revealed. A pair of assassins frames Katerina Alambiel in two attacks on the High King's life before she and a badly wounded Peter are captured by the sorcerer, Jambres. As he tortures them, Jambres reveals that Katerina Alambiel is part Human and part Narnian. Katerina Alambiel interferes with Jambres' attempt to kill Peter, taking the brunt of the spell herself before Oreius and the other Narnians rescue them. Aslan confirms to Katerina Alambiel that she is both Human and Narnian, and that her Narnian heritage is that of Nymph and Centaur due to her mother being the Nymph daughter of a Centaur, before charging her with the task of searching for the identity of her birth family, thereby unlocking the forgotten memories of her early childhood. Katerina Alambiel survives the spell with the addition of two white streaks in the front of her hair as souvenirs and Peter decides to knight her into his chivalric order for her actions (Full story: Shadowed).

Two years after being knighted Dame Sepphora of the Most Noble Order of the Lion, Katerina Alambiel is nearing the end of her search for the identity of her Narnian birth family. While her long-forgotten memories begin to resurface, she runs afoul of Count Hendrik of Sisemaal, one of Narnia's allies. Afterwards, Katerina Alambiel discovers that she was born Alambiel, daughter of Lew the last King of Narnia, and the only survivor of Jadis' massacre of the original royal family. Before Katerina Alambiel can decide how to handle the information, she and King Edmund go on a border patrol but are captured by the vengeful disgraced Count Hendrik and his cousin, Heikki, who leads a group of mercenaries employed by the Witch Medea. As Peter and Oreius lead a huge rescue party to find them, Edmund and Katerina Alambiel are tormented by Medea. Peter and Oreius rescue them just after Medea turns Katerina Alambiel over to Heikki and Hendrik and prepares to kill Edmund. Medea is defeated and her forces routed and scattered. Katerina Alambiel swears Oreius and the four other Narnians who know the truth of her identity to secrecy (Full story: Revealed).

A Light in the Darkness: Concealed

Prologue: To Plot in Shadows

21 Yule 1004

"Can we not perform the ceremony tonight at moonhigh?"

"No, Brutus, we cannot perform it yet. The cost of such a ritual is too high. Besides the fresher the blood the better." The Hag clacked her beak menacingly as she boldly met Brutus' gaze, "Remember, Werewolf, you are indebted to me for the price of healing your wounds this past summer. You claim to know a way to capture the sacrifice without bringing the wrath of the Great Cat on us and you will keep your side of the bargain we made or you won't live long enough to fully regret it...but your kin will."

Brutus growled at the reminder of the terms and conditions the Hag had insisted on binding him to when they first began forming this plot. His scarred muzzle wrinkled as he snarled, "I remember, Hag, that you said we merely need wait for Winter Solstice. Well? It is Winter Solstice."

The Hag ignored him as she turned to the squirming young Satyr they had snatched from the outskirts of a Narnian town. Raising a black knife, the Hag began chanting an incantation to enable her to read the potential future in crude imitation of the gifts of foresight and prophecy the Great Cat had granted to the Centaurs. Brutus watched the sacrifice with callous indifference, though he did wonder if the Hag's readings came anywhere close to the certainty the stars apparently granted the Centaurs. Isak had had no trust for the Hag's plot, but he had been wholly devoted to Medea. Brutus himself was not as powerful as Isak, but he still ruled his pack and they would follow his lead in this plot. For though the Hag was no more trustworthy than any other Fell, Brutus believed she would continue to hold to the plan to bring back their Mistress. He growled, "How much longer must we wait, Hag?"

The Hag lifted a finger and casually licked the blood off her talon, testing it as a part of her foretelling, before she cackled, "Two years precisely. The eclipse shall fall on Winter Solstice and at moonhigh with the sacrifice of royal blood we shall bring Her back and Narnia shall be ours once again."

Brutus threw his head back and howled. His howl celebrating the coming triumph echoed through the cavern and was taken up by his Werewolf brethren. Brutus lowered his head and snarled in anticipation at the mere thought of how much he would enjoy bringing about his end of the plot. The royals of Narnia would never expect it...

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A/N: Please Read and Review! So, I happen to be posting the opening of Concealed exactly one year after I posted the opening chapters of my first story Awakening. :) All right, so the bad guys are plotting and our heroes shall soon be in a lot of trouble, but don't worry nothing so terrible as what happened in Revealed...I think. Anyway, leave a review and let me know what y'all think about this one. Oh, and happy Veterans Day.