“Mist told me. I had wondered about your age and she told me you were acting. I asked Isabella and she explained that you were following instructions from a guide of how an adult should act. I didn’t realize you were just like us, one of us” Conrad’s words almost sounded ridiculing but they both understood that he wasn’t because they both knew why she did what she did.
She had to raise two children, that wasn’t something a teenager could manage. Even if they could, a teenager couldn’t raise two children while caring for her husband and her responsibility as the Lady of a Marquess house. Thus she needed to talk and act like an adult so she sought Snow for help. Back at the Revival Headquarters, Conrad had asked Mist about it in a conversation and later he consulted Isabella thus he under
