

Previously, the handsome, golden prince Baldair had caught Vhalla as she fell off of a rolling ladder while shelving books.

All of the library apprentices were summoned to the Imperial Library to research Northern poisons as the prince was poisoned. Shortly thereafter, one of her friends and fellow library apprentice comes to get her. She looks outside and sees that one of the princes has returned from the war and is wounded.

Vhalla is awoken late at night by the sound of horses outside of her window. Despite being a farmer's daughter, Vhalla had been taught how to read by her mother. At the age of 11, after the war had concluded, Vhalla's father got Vhalla a position as a library apprentice in the Imperial Library in the South. While her father was away at war, her mother died of autumn fever. At the age of 7 her father went away to fight in the war of the Crystal Caverns against the taint. Vhalla Yarl was raised on a farm in Leoul, Cyven, in the East.
