Despite lying in a bed with Egyptian cotton sheets and after the eventful day I had just gone through, I couldn't fall asleep. The doubt that the voice in my head - claiming to be Gea - had planted in my mind prevented me from thinking about anything else: How was it possible that my mother had appeared in the same town I had arrived in just a little over a month and a few weeks ago, along with my aunt Elene? And not only that, but she was living in this mansion and even was a recognized woman in the community, just as Aly had told me Celeste was. In other words, she must have been living in this town, as my friend had also said, for much longer than me. My family, as I had already mentioned, was full of lies, and both my grandfather, who had loved and cared for me so much, and now

