Vivian dreamed. Images of her time in Aldric Fontaine's Court floated through her mind. She dreamed about her oath to assist her princess in the destruction of Damon Dalca. She saw herself cut her palm amd offer the blood that welled up in her hand to the King in a blood oath. She saw herself beating those believed to be harboring Damon and his associates.<br/><br/>Then she saw herself breaking her blood oath to the King and entering a new one with the Queen. The princess' mother had become determined to save her daughter from the life of death and horror that she had been raised in. To prevent her from fulfilling the evil purpose to which she had been engineered since birth. Kill Damon Dalca. Kill Damon Dalca. Destroy the Dalca line forever.<br/><br/>Finally she saw herself, the queen, and Jade. Jade's mother plunged a knife, believed to have been forged by Death himself, into Jade's throat before plunging it into Vivian's as well.<br/><br/>She remembered waking up in a room with an amnesiac Jade and being thankful that they were finally free of the terrors that now lay behind them.<br/><br/>Then she saw River's face. His beautiful smile and the ice in his eyes when he had made love to her. The terror that had flooded her mind and body when black magic had overcome her.<br/><br/>She woke, surrounded by the people she had come to think of as a sort of family.