Finley Cai Aies Hall March 28th, 20XX
“How much do you know about your mother?”
An unbidden sigh budded up from my throat and let itself out of my lips as I realized that my life was, once again, about to be upturned by a woman I had never met or even heard of until a few months ago.
“Less than I thought, apparently. What does this have to do with her? Or me?”
Esmeralda raised a slightly irritated eyebrow at my tone, but kept going.
“Belphoebe was a fairy, but more importantly, she was our Queen. She ruled the queendom until her... unfortunate passing seventeen years ago.”
I got an uneasy feeling in my stomach as she continued speaking. It wasn’t difficult to guess where she was going with the sudden revelation of this information, but I so wished she wouldn’t.
“And what does that m
