Chapter Forty Nine

RPOV

Songs: Into Happiness by Phantogram, Bottom of the River by Delta Rae, NFWMB by Hozier

Over the next few days, more letters arrived. Some of them were as vague and cryptic as the first one, others were very specific on the group's plans and purpose.

Basically, they were psychopathic, racist cocktroughs who wanted to rise to power by suppressing the Dhampir. They described a new order they wished to instill, which gave the Moroi species more authority over my kind. One of the letters even had a list of new laws they demanded our kingdom adopt. A main initiative was that all Dhampir would enlist in their kingdoms troops at the age of 12. Any who were incapable of fighting were then sanctioned as slave workers by their rulers.

The only exception to this new law was to females—and their proposed fate wasn't any better.

Lissa was appalled by the growing list of demands, but I could tell the threats that came with them were starting to get to her. She would go from angry to paranoid an