"Sovereign," she said. Not the way the thing inside Serena had said it, using it as a designation from a distance. Just a word, acknowledging what she saw.
"Naya Ashveil," I said.
Something moved in her face at her full name coming out of a stranger's mouth with that certainty. "Fen told you."
"Fen found your grandmother's records. The Ashveil Sovereign line." I watched her face while I said it. "Unconfirmed since 1971. Your grandmother died without passing the confirmation formally. The line went to your father unconfirmed and then to you and your brother without either of you knowing it existed."
Silence.
She looked at Fen. He met her eyes without flinching, which meant he'd known she'd look at him and had already decided how to hold it.
"You suspected," she said to him. Not accusa
