King's childhood lover-Snow Flower!

"Very well. I shall tell you of my family." He lights his pipe with a match and slips it between his lips. I sat down on the floor in front of him, draw my knees to my chest and rest my chin atop them. "I had three other siblings. Iron Coyote, then my twin sisters Gentle Raven and Snow Lion. I am the youngest."

I listen to him intently, my head cocked to the side with interest. "I did not know of your sisters."

He leans against the armrest of the chair.

" Snow Lion, or as we call her by her Commoner's name Mairwen, is married off to the one you know as Three Horses. They have a family and White Lion is under his name now. Gentle Raven, Lavanya, died when I was five, and she was 7. I s'pose it was some kind of common illness gone rogue."

I bite my lip and lower my head a little. "I'm sorry."

He shrugs. "My mother died the same way when I was nine, my only other sister Snow Lion was eleven, and Iron Coyote, Edmund was twelve. That was thirteen years ago. My father didn't raise us. We w