Chapter 17
Luckily for Cera, her sister had been too happy to see her and on too much of a post-performance high to ask a lot of questions about how she’d made it to her opera debut.
It had been Dana’s first official performance, but definitely not her last. Cera had barely managed to cut through the crowd surrounding her sister to tell her she was there and give her a quick hug, before a tall Asian boy and a black girl with braided extensions approached her little sister. They both looked around Dana’s age, but the crowd parted for them as if royalty were coming through.
“You did a more than adequate job, Dana,” the girl told her.
“Both our father and our patron were impressed,” the boy added. “But our patron matters more, since he is the one who will be financing our opera production
