Stifling a profuse yawn, Arabella walked slowly so as not to disturb Celestia, who was still asleep. The hour was rather early, in fact, and the morning light was still sparse outside. She wouldn't have minded allowing herself a few hours of sleep either, but unfortunately, that night too, she hadn't been able to sleep a wink, especially after what she had discovered the night before about her birth. Though while reading her mother's diary and letters she found nowhere that she was not a de Lorgne, Arabella was almost convinced that she had found evidence of her own illegitimacy. The discovery hadn't shocked her, she had never thought she would be too surprised to find confirmation of her doubts indeed, but it had left her in a bad shape, more than she had expected. Even though she h

