Ariena is a wise woman who was imprisoned for an innocent crime and sentenced to death.
She is once a childhood friend of Prince Simeon, who is now feared by his own people as a ``cruel prince.''
She is offered a deal that will exempt her from the death penalty. That is to become pregnant with his child.
In order to survive, Aliena agrees to her deal.
And so, her days in the dungeon where she was embraced by the prince began...

Because of something she did, Simeon's feet wandered away from the prison.
A prolonged winter, a shortage of soldiers, the tension of an attack that can come at any moment, foreign mercenaries approaching the king...
And Aliena, whose death sentence is approaching.
Their presence causes Simeon distress.
At that moment, a doll held by one of the soldiers catches his eye.

"It's called the Prince's Lark Doll. Aliena is teaching her children how to make it."

It is a lark doll made of rush that he once taught Aliena how to make.
Carrying his childhood memories and a doll, Simeon visits Ariena's dungeon for the first time in a while.

Meanwhile, foreign mercenary Adan approaches King Dryden, who is in turmoil, and offers him an idea about what to do with Aliena...