She woke up with a bad feeling...something was wrong. She sat and listened intently. Rain was the only thing she could hear. Perhaps it was thunder that startled her, but she had a feeling it was something else. She crept to her door and listened to the door. There were hurried voices and hurried steps. She opened the door and went down the hall. Several men ran past her. Amelia tried to get their attention but they were too in a hurry for her. She ran to the meeting room in her sparce pajamas. She didn't need to be a lycan to smell the blood of another being. She picked up her pace and prayed that her father was wrong about an attack. She was blocked from the room until she began pushing. A few growled until they saw who she was. Amelia made her way to the front to see two very injured lycans and her very angry father. "Raze!" she says rushing forward to assess his wounds. She was never sick around blood but it made her panic to see her brothers injured...and one was missing. "What happened?" she asks as she tears clothes from her night gown to create turnicates to stop the blood until she gets something to stitch the men.

Breathing heavily Raze answers,"We went after one...the other ambushed us...a new one came out of no where."

"Rax is much worse," Lucian says.

Amelia jumps up to go to the other man. She as well as another lycan begin checking his vitals. Amelia passes the clothe from her gown until she could spare no more and still remain decent in front of the men.

"Go fetch some bandages and a needle," Lucian says. Amelia jumped up and ran from the court. "Where is Nero?" Lucian asks Raze.

"I don't know...they drug him off..." Raze says. He could see Lucian did not like that answer.

Amelia returned and sadly looked into her father's eyes. Anxiety and anger flashed across his face. She began to stitch the now unconscious Rax on the table. A second lycan took up another needle to move things along so that no more blood was lost. Some of the wounds needed to be cauterized and when that came around she moved to Raze.

He was very light headed and could barly feel the needle. He did not want to pass out. He needed to touch something real so he did not fall away. He reached out and gently touched her hair. It was softer than anything he had ever felt. It felt good against his rough hands. He moved his hand from her hair to her cheek. She was cold to his touch because lycan blood is hotter than the human body temperature. "You have become such a beautiful woman," he mumbles hazily. She looked up at him and smiled. His head felt dizzy as he thanked her for the stitches.

She escorted him to the courtyard, thinking the fresh air would do him good. Suddenly a frustrated lycan walks from the halls out to the courtyard. "We must do something to get the information from those blood sucking bastards," Vex says loudly to Maun.

"We need an edge on everything," Maun says thinking aloud. They then turn and see Amelia attending to Raze. Suddenly the one turns to the other. "If only there was some way we could get someone inside," he says smiling to Vex.

"But how we are all lycans," Vex says unprovoked.

"Exactly," Maun says thinking.

"Tye," Amelia commands to a nearby lycan,"could you take Raze inside and put him to bed?" Tye immediately walks over to help, knowing that Amelia had nearly as much authority as Lucian. With Raze out of hearing distance Maun and Vex could speak what they are really thinking.

"Amelia, we have an idea for a way to help your father's cause," Maun begins.

"And that would be?" she asks skeptically.

"You could disguise yourself as a baron's daughter...get into the castle and sabatage or even get some of their plans," Maun says.

"Unless you are afraid of the vampires," Vex teases.

"I'm not afraid and my father has trained me to take care of myself against them..." Amelia replies defiantly. "But how am I going to first get in and out without being drained and second, I smell exactly like you guys. Your scent is engraved in my skin, they would know who I was working with in a second and rip me to shreds."

"Come on you could do this," Vex says.

"We have to keep this quiet," Maun says.

"You cannot tell your father," Vex says pointing his finger threateningly.

"I would never think of it," Amelia says batting away his finger,"but how would Viktor even talk to me?"

"Barons go to the castle to make sacrifices so they keep their land safe. If we pose you as the only survivor from their entourage against a lycan attack, that will explain our smell. He will want to mainly talk business with the new heir to the land, however he may pretend to sympathize with your loss of family," he says.

"Okay," she says.

"Are you willing to get closer to him?" Vex says.

"What are you thinking?" Maun asks.

"Are you a virgin?" Vex asks.

Amelia pauses,"Why?"

"Well I smell you are in heat...no offense. Vampires like blood, but Viktor loves a virgin. If you could bed him, that would get you close enough to harm him if we implanted you with something deadly to vampires," Vex says. Amelia thinks, a grim look on her face.

"This would really help your father," Maun says sticking the knife into the bargain,"this would help us all!"

Amelia pauses. This meant her giving her innocence to a creature that was most repulsive to her. Lucian had instilled that she should save that part of her for someone who loved her and she would mate with for the rest of her life. It was not something to just give away. But she would be giving it for her father...for her brothers...for maybe the end of this dreaded war. Could she be selfish with something that could help so many people who are so close to her?

She sighed,"I'll do it."