I stare blankly at Tara, a million thoughts running through my mind. I expected myself to be angry at her for knowing all of those years and saying nothing, but I wasn't angry at all. I understood why she ran when she did, she thought that the Valkarie was going to kill her entire species, all of her people. I know that if I had a chance to know about some sort of threat, I would have hidden my people too. Tara exiled herself, her people and her kingdom to the depths of the ocean under Calfai to protect them. She acted like a true leader, and for that I could never blame her. I lay my hand gently on hers.
"Tara, I know. I understand, I would have done the same thing." Tara's eyes fill up with tears, the first sign of a deeper emotion I have ever seen from her. She had felt guilty about hi
