25. War is here . . . "She knows now" she revealed and my heart broke. "While you slept like a damsel or rather while you were almost dying, I took my time to visit her—I assure you, it was quite difficult to convince her that I was her mother, she was so quick to warn me to stay away from you, so eager to defend you from me, so I took a leverage from her, you see Fia has found her mate, a young boy that works in the castle and in other for her to come with me, I took him, it was not so hard for her to come with me after that. Do not worry Althea, I will take good care of her, and when you finally choose to join me, we will have a beautiful reunion but for now farewell" and with those she disappeared and I found my way back to the council room. **** "Althea, what happened?" Nadine a

