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“You want to defect from Cambria?” he asked.
“We do,” I said into the radio, keeping my eyes locked on Graham’s. “Do you have any idea how we can escape?”
“I do not,” he said. “There has been only one known defector in the past hundred years.”
Graham’s mouth fell open.
“Someone left?” I asked. “When?”
“About twenty years ago,” said the man.
“Who was it?” Graham asked.
“Her name was Lena Irvine,” he said.
I set down the radio, the shock disorienting me.
Lena Irvine? The former queen of Cambria?
“That can’t be true,” Graham said to me. “She died twenty years ago. That’s when the throne passed to the Second House. Her line ended.”
“Graham,” I said, “maybe I’m not the only queen to fake my death.”
Graham lifted the radio. “Is Lena Irvine still alive?”
A slight pause. “Yes."
Graham shook his head, looking back at me. “So where do we go from here?”
“Anywhere in the world,” I said, my imagination running wild. “But first, let’s take Cael down.”
A smile lifted one corner of Graham’s mouth.
“Are you in?” I asked, though I already knew the answer.
“Absolutely,” he said, his blue eyes blazing.
I kissed him on the mouth, never loving him more than I did now.
I held the radio, our lifeline to the outside world. I couldn’t profess to know anything anymore, not now that all my previous conceptions of the world had been shaken to the core. The world I knew was gone, as dead as my father.
But in my hand, I held a source of truth and hope—an opportunity to cure my ignorance and learn what knowledge really was. I’d do whatever it took to break the walls that kept Cambria isolated from the outside world. I just needed a little help.
It was time for our kingdom to die so the people could finally live.
I lifted the radio. “Can you help us find Lena Irvine? We’re ready to be free.”
