25 Cyra I take a deep breath, not sure if I’m feeling nauseous because of the pregnancy or because of what I’m about to do. Today, I’ll be face to face with my parents for the first time in years. I’ve been able to avoid them for a long time, but no longer. While it would have been enough to let Brian send over all the paperwork to my parents and the Alpha basilisk, I didn’t want to do it that way. I wanted to do this myself. I wanted to make it very clear to them that no matter what happens today, this will be the last time I’ll speak to them, at least outside of a courtroom. We’re meeting in some building that Spence’s Alpha got us for the day. That way, we were sure that we would be alone and wouldn’t have to bother with the media or other people snooping too much. My parents are

