“Sa ser e tsnvel. Siro tsaghiky, nra karmir vardn u nra jrery sareri verevi yerknk’its’ ein galis: Nra nvernery mez, t’ert’ikner, siro, jur, ptghaberut’yan, urakhut’yun, geghets’kut’yan hamar. (This is how love was born. Love's flower, her red rose and its waters came from the sky above the mountains. Her gifts to us, petals for love, water for fertility, joy for beauty.)”

-Sophenen Saying

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Princess Taline Bagdhasaryan has just come of age. She and her faithful hetaireia, Sophenen sworn family guard, Gurgen attend their people's annual festival of love. But destiny may have more planned for the young princess...