


She decides to make this her while, and plays with both Kaden and Rafe leading Kaden on, while toying with Rafe's unusual affections.she uses every trick in the book, looks at Rafe through dark condescending lashes, picking up a nut that he drops and throws it in her mouth. When she comes out to give food she sees only Kaden, Rafe, and a few other guests. Then the days of celebration come, Lia is delighted to have a break from her chores and duties, after they do the first day of praying and fasting Lia goes to make food for the public dinner at Berdi's tavern. Unknown to Lia, both Kaden and Rafe have witnessed the embrace between her and her brother with each assuming she has now taken a lover, though each finds out the truth shortly after. Lia learns that her brothers understand why she abandoned her wedding and royal life and have been purposely misfollowing her tracks from Civica. While in Terravin, Lia's brother Walther rides to visit her in secret where they lovingly embrace and share news of their separate lives and Walther's joy of becoming a father in the coming months. Lia is immediately drawn to each of the men in different ways and begins to form bonds with them over the summer months. To both of men, Kaden and Rafe, Lia is not the princess that either had come in search of. Unbeknown to Lia, one of these men is the prince she was arranged to marry and the other is an assassin sent to murder her in her sleep. Berdi takes in the two girls who help her run the inn in return for food and shelter, where one night two mysterious men walk in for a meal. Pauline takes Lia to Berdi's inn, Berdi who took Pauline and her mother in when Pauline's father passed. Having left her old life behind, Lia befriends Berdi and Gwyneth and settles quickly into a simple life along the town's shores. Dressed in her wedding dress and wedding cloak, she and Pauline race over 10 days on horseback to the small town of Terravin to start a new, free life together. On the day of her arranged marriage to the Prince of Dalbreck, Princess Lia secretly decides to flee her royal life with her lady's maid, Pauline.

On her right shoulder, she has a permanent claw and vine design on her skin in beautiful color, left behind from her wedding kavah. She is described as very beautiful with high cheeks, full lips and long black hair.
