"For difference is wrong, and I'm different from you, and you'll crush what you can't understand." Julia Ecklar
Dressed in black clothing, thick and layered to keep out the winter's cold, Ide slipped from the shadows of the trees nearby, darting quickly to a lone tree that grew beside the manor house. She climbed up quietly, careful not to snag her cloak on the branches as she climbed, until she reached a perch that gave her an excellent view into the third-floor bedroom of Lord O'Mallory's thirdborn son.