Chapter 29
Travis
I couldn’t feel my legs for a second.
For a moment, I just stood there—frozen, my mouth dry, my heart banging so loud I could hear it echoing inside my skull.
She was right in front of me.
My mother…
The woman who I thought was dead my whole life.
The woman my father told me several times had been taken by rogues and torn to pieces when I was just a boy.
The woman who I'd been haunted in my dreams for years by, until I finally forced myself to forget about her.
But now she stood in the council room like no time had passed at all.
I didn't really see her face much, I was still very little when she disappeared, but from my vague picture of her, she seemed to have her hair longer, a few strands Grey on it.
“Hello, Travis,” she said softly, her voice unfamili
