by Sophie Stern
He knew Kaira wanted to find a troll.
He also knew that it would kill her in an instant.
That wasn’t why King Liam forbade his daughter to enter the forest, though.
In actuality, a much bigger threat resided in the mountainside behind the darkness of the trees: a threat that would love to get its hands on a princess, especially one as young and tasty as Kaira.
Though the risk of being captured was small, it was less small when you were royalty. And though many believed the fables to simply be myths that had been passed on for generations, the King knew better.
As a young prince, he had wandered too far into the depths of the forest and eventually found himself in a deep, dark cave.
With nothing but his bravery, the King had encountered a monster so great that he had spoken of it only to his one-legged, dim-witted brother Percy who had died later that year. How the King managed to escape, he still didn’t know. How he managed to find his way home, he never knew. How the King managed to find a cavern that few had ever seen, he couldn’t comprehend.
Despite years of searching, he had never been able to find the cave again.
But he knew it was there.
And the King knew that if he warned his daughter of a dragon in their country, she would be running for its cave even faster than she was running for the trolls.
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