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“Wait. When did you know that?”
“Just now. The way you eat and your father’s name. It is Sethir. I had your genetic profile from the BDC. I compared it to Sethir, who went missing just over twenty-four years ago.”
“Why didn’t they find me?”
“You had crossed a municipal line. They picked you up in a different area and didn’t look for accidents. You were taken into care in Aksalla, but the crash was on a road in the capitol.”
She understood what had happened. “I walked to the wrong country.”
“You were three. That you managed to get yourself to safety was astonishing.”
She swallowed. “No one was looking for me.”
“Inquiries were made, but there was no record of you. Recordkeeping was not what it is now, and you were too young for an implant. Your parents were servants in the royal house. Reeva and Gelor Va-Cal. I have images of them. Of them with you and of you playing with a kitten.”
She twisted in his arms. “You have pictures of my parents?”
He nodded. “I do. Would you like to see them?”
She nodded. Her body was shaking.
“Now?”
“Yes, please.”
He kissed her lightly and smiled at her shining eyes. “Are you getting used to the vision?”
She shrugged. “It is different but not impossible to manage.”
He caressed her neck. “I am glad. To my sight, you are stunning.”
He slowly released her and held her hand, pulling her to the outer room where he opened the files and showed her the family that had been hers.
* * * *
The faces were familiar. She saw aspects of them in the mirror every day. She mouthed their names and touched the screen. “The necklace. She let me play with it. It was in my fist until the accident.”
“You remember all that?”
“I am a seer. My visions move me back and forth in time. Our daughter has the same skill.”
He laughed. “The Sethir-Nin don’t have girls.”
“The alphas usually don’t. You are not a usual alpha. You are a chemical cocktail with feet.” She quirked her lips and touched the picture of her mother and father.
Her father’s smile. She remembered that no matter how tired he was, his face pulled into a smile when he saw her. Her mother always laughed, and they had a group hug together before dinner. She had tried to tell the other kids in the group home that she had a family and they loved her. They called her a castoff.
“They wanted to keep me.”
“They were on holiday from work and took you with them because they couldn’t bear to be parted from you.” He squeezed her hand. “You were their focus each and every day.”
He touched the screen, and a chubby child with a very pointy kitten in her lap was giggling and looking at the person who took the image. There was a heap of dark hair, her lightly gold skin, and a freckle at the edge of her temple. “That’s me.”
“That is you. And you were adorable. I hope that if we have any daughters, they look like you.”
She smiled. “The first one will. She’s confident and direct as well.”
His eyes went big. “You have seen her?”
