[Bailey]
“Are you okay? You look upset,” Lana said gently.
“I had a dream about a woman named Astrid. She said she was watching over me, guiding me to honorable fights. She said she wanted to protect me, but couldn’t and she couldn’t tell me more because she wasn’t allowed to. Astrid was my mother?”
Lana’s expression softened as she reached out to grasp my hand. I let her take my hand as I worked through my feelings. Why hadn’t she told me in the dream? Was she supposed to keep that much a secret? Why?
“In the dream… she called me a different name,” I told my sister.
“Beyla…. Right? Your real name. She asked Mom to give you a name that would be more human and to tell you your real name when it was time to tell you the truth. Astrid always talked like she wasn’t going to see you grow u
