18Six months later… Sugar still hadn’t adjusted to not knowing where she was, but over the months she’d been at the Lyran palace, she had come to realize that ignorance about her location was a small price to pay for what she got in return. Her days were now spent unconcerned about attacks. Feeling safe was precious enough for her to honor Queen Nyomi’s and Rodu’s insistence that she not ask anyone to reveal the location of her sanctuary. Her days had fallen into a rhythm Sugar couldn’t complain about. She spent her mornings physically training with Rodu and her afternoons in deep study going through the Ancient Earth artifacts and records Queen Nyomi had accumulated. She was living an archaeologist’s ultimate dream to be able to even look at what she had access to now. Yet it was also

