It took Theora a few seconds to recover. She was still standing in the Royal Palace, in what seemed to be an inner patio, and she was due to meet the King... But what had just happened? The Seer? What was that even supposed to mean? She'd met a couple of odd people before who pretended they could read the lines of her hands or something, but that man had outright given her a name she had only said aloud a handful of times before... A name her mother had made her swear to keep secret. Theora shivered, feeling more out of her depth than ever before. Who was that? Did they work for the King? What else could he have found out?
She heard steps coming from the corridor, and decided to move rather than be found alone in a place she perhaps wasn't supposed to be left unsupervised in. She stepped
