Chapter 56
Thalia
“Why don’t you know about my mother?” I repeatedly asked Brianna.
I wanted to know about my mother. I wanted to know which of them, my mother or father, had Royal blood. Or had a connection to King Lucian.
Brianna fell silent for a moment. She looked up at the sky as if remembering things she couldn’t bring herself to say.
“I don’t know anything about her. Not even her name,” she answered me tersely.
“But… how did you know me? Why have you been watching over me since then?” I asked one question after another.
“Because that was your father’s last wish,” she answered, looking straight at me. “To watch over you. To guide you. Until the time you can find your truth.”
I fell silent. I remembered last night’s dream again. The light. Athena’s form. Her voice. The power I
