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“When was this?” I asked.
She seemed taken aback.
“Ten years ago,” she replied.
I laughed. My laugh sounded odd and although I could hear it, there was nothing I could do to stop it.
Amarra watched me with a widening gaze.
“Ten years ago, you finally found the courage to go against your mummy and escape your prison of luxury,” I said. “Let me think... What was I doing, ten years ago? Oh, I know. I was eleven. That means that was the year Kalyden locked me in the basement for a week with no food or water.”
“I couldn’t take you with me,” Amarra said. “You were so young. It would be dangerous.”
I forced another laugh. “That’s rich... Dangerous was it? Was it more dangerous than being called into the trials?”
Her face changed.
“When I found out, it was too late to stop it,” she replied.
“I guess that’s what happens when you abandon a child,” I replied.
For a moment, she was speechless. Even I was surprised at myself for uttering those words and I did not want to find out what she would say in return. Before she could respond, I changed the subject.
“How did you find me?” I asked.
“I went to your house to interrogate Oren and his wife,” she said.
“They wouldn’t know or care where I am,” I interrupted her.
“I know that now,” she replied. “They didn’t know anything. But your little brother came in and told me that former monsters knew where you are.”
“Feremir?” I asked. “He is okay?”
Amarra nodded. “He said he had a vision about my visit to his family home and knew that he had to come and tell me how to find you. He loves you.”
I did not want to talk to Amarra about Feremir. She was a stranger. I didn’t want her to ask about the tear that I quickly hid. Feremir was fine. For now, that was enough.
“He told you to look for a former monster?” I asked.
“Yes,” she replied.
“How did you find a former monster?” I asked.
“The Singers helped me,” Amarra said.
“Singers?” I asked.
“The resistance,” Amarra replied. “They connected me with a few former monsters who stayed in Terlyth.”
“What is the resistance doing now?” I asked.
I did not want to talk about Amarra abandoning me anymore. She could not justify what she did, no matter how dire she claimed her circumstances were. I was convinced, deep within, that I would be better off anywhere else than with Kalyden and Oren.
“Lots of things,” she said. “They are trying to protect the monster folk. They are trying to spread the message that the queen has done bad things. They...”
She paused. “Do you think you would have been better off if I hadn’t left you with them?”
“Are you in my mind, still?” I asked.
