She Is Sealed

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"Tell me why I never heard about you?" That should not be the first question between cousins. But the way Eve was looking at him, eyes full of doubt and confusion, Killian could only sigh and scratch his chin.

"Your mother had left us long ago. I thought that she would talk about us just as my father talks about her all the time. But it looks like that is not the case." he laughed, his hands reaching for his hair. "Have you ever heard about us?"

Eve looked away. She did not know how to answer that.

"She was too young when her mother died. She had been in stupor for a month and when she started to heal, her memories of her childhood were faded. She was so thin and weak that the healers suggested not talking about her mother. They were worried that it would aggravate her state.