Queen Eladriel finds out

When Hazel was done explaining who she was to my mother and had answered all the questions, my mom asked her to leave the room. Hazel left for the hall, and my mother looked at me, the terror still on her face. "Who is that girl exactly? Why did you bring her here? And why does she look so much like your father?" I was not expecting some sort of interrogation from my mother once Hazel had closed the doors. "Well, for one, I told you that she is called Hazel, right? She has a second name, but I can't tell you that name yet because you would act irrational right now. I brought her here because she asked me to and so she can come here in the city once you would announce that she is welcome here to our people. I promised her that I would ask you that after a while. And as for why she looks so much like my father, I don't know, just a coincidence, I guess." She nodded during my answer, but the terror did not disappear from her face. She had one last question she wanted to ask me. "Why did she have wings on her back, and why was she wearing your clothes?" I felt that I had to be honest this time so I said "Well she's a human and if I wouldn't have given her fake wings she would have brought the attention from our people upon her, I didn't want that to happen as for the clothes she was wearing, I had to let her wear something like our clothes. Her own clothes would have been a dead giveaway of who she was. We wouldn't want that now, would we?" My mother seemed pleased with the answers. The terror disappeared from her face, and she sent me out to get Hazel home.

When I got to the hallway, the guards were bewildered by the mobile phone Hazel was using to play a few games on. I guess it did take rather long for me to get out of there because of the questions my mother was asking me and because I had tot walk all the way from one end of the throneroom to the doors on the other end. When I creeped behind them, coughed and said: "what are you two doing here not paying any attention to who walks in or out of that room? Back to your posts, the queen is still inside. You should be protecting her." they jumped up, startled by my sudden presence in the hallway.

I walked out with Hazel after I fixed her hair, her hood, and her shoes. I guided her home through the forest, took the spell off her shoes a second time when we got at her cottage and told her I had to go home right away because my mother still wanted to discuss something with me, I didn't know what it was but she sent me a message as soon as I was gone with Hazel. It just said that she had to discuss something with me and that it was urgent.

The minute I got home, my mother took me to my room because it was the most silent place in the palace. She asked me why Hazel looked so much like me. Could she be my forgotten sister? I didn't answer my mom but looked out the window instead. 'Isyx, some people have seen her, and the guards started a rumor.' Silence. For a few minutes, we both didn't say a word. When I turned around to look at her, I saw that she looked very serious. I had no answer to her question, and I didn't know what to say to her about her last remark. I mean, I couldn't possibly tell her that Hazel was actually Lyndis. Mom would be shocked or very pissed off about it. So, instead, I tried answering about the guards and the people. But she didn't fall for it and asked about Hazel again. I didn't know what to answer but the truth. It has to come out one way or another. She'd figure it out eventually anyway. So I started telling her how Hazel is indeed my forgotten sister, how the potion only worked half, and Lyndis still had some powers and that she lives at the edge of the forest because she feels more at home there and that she doesn't fit in with the human world. My mom stayed incredibly calm. She didn't say a word, and she didn't look at me either.

After our discussion, I went to bed wondering why my mom stayed so extremely calm. It is as if she knew from the very beginning and that she had made peace with the fact that my father had a bastard daughter who was banished by the people of the village. Or so it seemed.