Avyana Celestine Adelinda POV I looked above the ceiling to think of a reason that she would believe. It is hard to make reasons out of lies because I don’t think she will forgive me. “Hehehehe,” I fake my laugh as I do not think it would work. “I….ahm… I saw a man in the forest. He…ahm he was dead so I sent him to the border so that everyone will ahm take care of him,” I said stammering while I was combing my hair in fear. ‘I hope she will not notice my white lies,’ I said in my mind. She gazed upon my eyes with her captious dark eyes as if she was reading my mind and suspecting me of being a liar. Well, I was lying to her but I hope she will never know it. Besides, I am alive and my great-grandmother was the one who proposed going to the Sacred Tree. She should trust the Queen, as

