Forgotten princess

Previously

…Anya nodded, her gaze fixed on the dark, inviting depths of the Whispering Woods. It was a daunting prospect, a journey into the unknown, but it was also the only path left. As she took her first tentative steps into the ancient forest, the last remnants of the night’s falling stars still flickered in her mind’s eye, a celestial farewell to the life she had lost, and perhaps, a promise of a future she could not yet comprehend. The gilded cage was broken, and Anya, the forgotten princess, was finally, terrifyingly, free.