Eighteen-year-old Levee Tensley was just another citizen of Nevaharday until her uncanny talent with horses captured the attention of Arelee, the Royal Horsemistress responsible for breeding and training the kingdom’s war mounts.

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For Levee, it opened up an opportunity to carve a life for herself where she actually might fit in. The only problem was that her abilities weren’t normal. In fact, they’re the reason she ended up in Nevaharday in the first place. Levee was born among the kaises and traveled with her family, performing equine acrobatics, before she lost them to an unprovoked attack by men suspicious of her talent.​ They called her family "horse witches" right before they slaughtered them.

 

Levee managed to escape on the back of her pony, Melee, and was the lone survivor of the attack. Eventually, her pony led her to Milo Kasateno‘s door, and he and his mother took her in.​ From age nine onward, she lived in Nevaharday as one of its citizens.

 

Life was simple, if not boring, up until Arelee chose her as her apprentice. Afterward, Levee moved onto the castle's grounds. Most of its residents despised the kaises, forcing her to keep her past under wraps. But the prince was sharp. He caught on to her background and confronted her. Levee thought that encounter would be the end of her career before it even had the chance to start.

 

Instead, it led to him recruiting her in a search for answers that would save his life.