Lady Marlyna Pennington, at the tender age of sixteen, was set to marry the Archduke, Arthur Avington. Having never been given a choice, Marlyna took drastic actions which ended up causing political strife through the land, and caused her name to be stricken from the family records of House Pennington. But now, years later, is she the only hope for lasting peace through the land? And how much blood must be spilled for that peace to last? This is a little Novella written for the Open Novella Contest (2024) using prompt 13 (Every family has that one member of whom no one speaks, and that's you.)