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"Love After War"
By Sun Crichton
Introduction.
Aeryn Sylvana Isil Sun was a Raven. She was part of the Royal Flight, the highest ranking military unit in all avian land charged with protecting the lives of the Tuli Thea and her heirs. And she was third in command under Andreios. Before she even learned to fly, she had learned to hate the Serpiente and to be a Soldier. All twenty years of her life she had been and soldier and lived in war, but no more. Since the union of Danica Shardae, heir to the Tuli Thea, to Zane Cobriana, Arami of the Serpiente, there had been a peace nobody could recognize.
Since Aeryn had been a soldier in training, she had often wondered how the world would be if there was no war in the first place. She had sneaked to the library many times and read the ancient books that described peace and harmony instead of fear and bloodshed. She now knew that peace was within her grasp. She lived with her mother, Aria, and her younger sister, Marianna. Her mother was a seamstress. They owned a shop that Marianna helped to run. Sylvana had always been busy with her duties so she knew little of what went on at the shop. Her father had died when she was eleven and with him all the fairy tales he told her before bed. Sylvana had a most unexpected path ahead of her. One that would change her live forever.