"What is it?" Artholdt asked me excitedly. Perhaps he was expecting that I will tell him everything. But he was wrong. "What do you think was the reason that our mother kept her identity?"
I shook my head. "It's just a theory. I think she was trying not to get the attention of a certain person, who would have killed her the instant that she declared who she was, or what she was." Artholdt was confused by this, as he should, for I had no intention of telling him what I was thinking right now.
"Or it could also be that he was protecting you and your brother," said the Crown Prince while looking at me earnestly. "I'm sure that whatever it was that made her stay silent, she was thinking of you and your whole family."
"Thank y-you..." I responded and it took me some strength not to cry from
