1 Chapter 1 Dawn

She sat in her queen sized bed, her crimson hair a tangled mess having just woke up. She was the daughter of the Red General, the leader of the Red Army of the Rose Country. Her father was a very powerful man, especially since their country was at a constant war with the Cloud Country, the Whites.

All she could remember was the war. The war had lasted a century already, killing in the thousands. It had become such a hate fuelled war that many had forgotten why it had started in the first place. It was just a continuous cycle of hate that never ended.

Every Red child was taught since birth that the Whites were brutal murderers who murdered many of their country men. That was why they fought against them. That was the reason the Red children were told. But it was a lie.

Her eyes closed as she revisited a memory from so many years ago. A small silver haired boy standing by the fire side warming his hands. He turns to her and gives a big toothy grin, some of his front teeth are missing and some chipped but it was the most beautiful smile she had ever seen. Milo, that was his name.

He was the most pure and loving person she had ever met. And he was a White, one of the supposed brutes that deserved nothing but death according to her father. That's how she knew that it was a lie, that it was all a lie.

Her fists clenched in anger as she thought of her "father". He was a cold blooded man who showed no emotion. All her life he had never loved her, neither did her mother. They saved their affection and care only for her younger sister, Aurora.

Aurora was a beautiful girl, only three years younger than her.

At that time she thought that it was normal for her parents to be cold, but that was until Aurora was born. That was when she saw them display a gentleness she had never seen before.

Since then only the best was given to Aurora and she was forgotten. She had studied hard and gotten top notch grades but that was incomparable in their eyes to just a song sung by Aurora. Plagued by resentment she had avoided Aurora as much as she could. Despite how she felt though, she never tried to bully her younger sister, that would cross her bottom line.

After a few year she grew up and gave up her resentment. When she was ten she finally decided that she no longer needed to be loved by her parents, she needed to stop trying to live her life for them but instead live it for herself.

At fourteen she had saved up enough to invest in a promising business venture. The venture had been successful and she earned enough money to invest in other businesses.

She used the alias CAM to do all her transactions, hiding any link to herself. She was smart and well trained, she knew her father well enough to keep everything hidden from him. And while she had enough money to rival big noble families she did not buy herself a house and move out. She knew that despite how her father ignored her he would not let her live on her own. It would be shameful for him to have a wild daughter that lived on her own.

She took a deep breath. She would not let thoughts of her father ruin her morning. Staring at her bedroom windows she saw threads of light ever so slowly pierce through the dark sky. It was dawn.