The truth of their origins

"Mom, you really don't have to do this." Braelyn said gathering her resolve with the silent encouragement from Nikolas.

"No, I have to, baby girl. I hid it from you for long enough and you need to know. I never wanted to hide it from you to begin with, not all of it anyway. But Nikolas and Micah were not wrong in wanting to hide it either, you were safer that way. You see, the day you were born something really beautiful happened, then something really bad happened."

"I know mom, Nikolas told me the capitol was invaded and taken over the day I was born."