Kristoff stood across the room from the sirenae he so sought. Lucindeya. Her name on his lips was like the sounds the angels made when they sighed. Lucindeya was also his Bride. And Kristoff had spent many, many years trying to find her. He'd been searching for ever since her beloved son was taken from her. And how did he know about her son's departure from her life. Well that was just a secret he was going to keep to himself.

When she noticed Sebastian with a look of taste, he heard her murmur something about wanting to kill the vampire and smiled, at least she wasn't attracted to him. But then again not that many of the Lore were attracted to any of the vampires if the looks of disgust and hatred they were getting were any signs.

The Forbearers. The army that they were did not have a lot of knowledge on the other immortal species. For you see Kristoff was the rightful Horde King and so as a child he was sent to live with humans so that there could be made no more attempts on his life. And because he was raised in a human family, he had considered himself such and had never known about the Lore that he was truly a part of.

And because of his connection and relationship with his adoptive family his army of vampires were Forbearers. They forwent. They did not take blood from the humans, thinking it the cause of the red eye and the madness in all Horde vampires, which must be true, because none of the Forbearers had the eyes that red.

'Bastard.' He looked up when Lucindeya murmured the profanity aggressively. It was aimed at him, she had spotted him, it seemed. His beating heart, the one he hid with a magic spell his witch had given him, leapt and raced faster at the fact. Yes she might have only been noticing him in a negative way, but he would take what she would give.

'Just like that night,' he said, recalling the one night stand he had had with the siren. He'd hidden his fangs and made sure that his heart was beating. He hadn't wanted her to know he was a vampire or that she was his Bride, he wanted her to see him as any other immortal. To trust him, but she couldn't, she was a sirenae through and through.

'Did you say something?' Sebastian Murdoch asked from beside Kristoff and he shook his head.

'Nothing at all,' he replied, hoping the general would relent. Which he fortunately did.

'What are you doing here?' The general asked curiously, it was a different question to the one before and Kristoff didn't mind answering that one.

'I have come to win the Hie and put right something that I did many years ago that pained somebody very close to me,' Kristoff replied and when Sebastian looked as though he would to press for more information Kristoff only shook his head. 'I'm not going to tell you the details, after all we have our secrets now don't we?' he knew about Kaderin and Sebastian's little moment. He could hear his man's heart beating almost as fast as his own heart was.

'Do you know what this prize is?' the general asked curiously to which Kristoff nodded.

'Oh yes,' he said whilst gazing softly at Lucindeya. 'This prize will win me back into the embrace of my Bride.'