I waited but she was either unwilling or unable to give me any further explanation. In spite of my desire to remain calm my anger levels were rising. I knew that my family was messed up but I had never imagined that it was quite this messed up. It wasn’t any fault of the woman in front of me, yet I knew that she had information which she wasn’t sharing with me, and that fact alone was enough to annoy me. She had basically implied that my whole life was a lie, I needed her to explain what she meant by it before I lost my mind. “They don’t tell us anything directly but the guards do talk to each other. I know that our father wasn’t happy with our mother’s inability to bear more children after you. So he used a surrogate to carry his children until he had the two sons that he wanted, the

