Listening to Quil talk about her mom felt... almost comforting for Theora. She'd taken her dad's hand without thinking, and now, everyone around the table was enraptured by Quil's tale. She was only staring at Theora as she spoke calmly, leading them through her memories.
"I liked being your mother's bodyguard a lot," she smiled. "But I was still a child of House De Macran, so I had to obey my elders when they sent me on other missions, and at the time, they were cautious about the royal family. My family was never exactly fond of vampires. Not openly hostile either, just... wary. There was too much history battling supremacists. And Queen Maria was unpopular; Queen Valeria had taken the throne, but it was... rocky, politically, so to speak. She was a female vampire, unmarried, young... a
