Chapter 57: Eyes see lies.

They were all around the fountain. That pristine marble creation with its cherubs playing with dragons. Fin stepped closer, milky eyes following every movement she made.

She did not like this. Not one bit. That was what she could not understand about these priests.

Why were they all blind?

"Fin," the Shepherd said, as he pointed at the water. "Wash your face. Wash the rune away."

"My… face?" Fin asked. Could it be? Was there something in the water which had made all these people blind?

She felt the mana in the water. Knew what it was.

Back then, when she had been young, she had a truth pendant. She knew what its mana felt like.

"I was a princess," Fin said, a long forgotten myth swimming to the forefront of her mind. Warning her of what was to come. "And then I became…"

Fin gulped. The pain from the death of her last child still making her stomach turn.

Would it have been a girl? Doomed to become like her?