The Painter and the Serpent

Rinah has long been unsatisfied with the lack of personal attention she's gotten. She knows that many people feel intimicated by her powerful and noteworthy father, but can't hope but long for someone to make a move in her direction. What she was not expecting was for the youngest of her three brothers to introduce her to a seemingly hesitant twilight elvare, from the Northern Reaches, in fact, as a source of ideas for her paintings. When he both expresses interest in her, and hints at a past that must be resolved before he can even consider courting, she decides that this is one challenge she will take up. Zenir seems almost worshipful of her as the descendant of the god he worships. But he has no understanding of his own past, only that the truth lies in the north, and only with her at his side.