"Elodie!"
I gasped from shock since it has been a while since I last heard someone call me by my real name. Confused and perturbed at who in Rome knows about my real identity since I have never uttered my name ever since I arrived here, I looked at the person who just called me that and saw my mother.
"Ah. . ." Something was stuck in my throat that hinders me from speaking or I was just speechless from being put in a situation that is utterly and painfully impossible. Now that my mother was standing in front of me, I was petrified yet my insides were screaming and fighting for me to run to her and embrace her.
As soon as I mustered enough courage to take a step, a younger version of me ran past through my body like I was some kind of spirit and ran towards mother.
"Ma! I found a caterp
