If only I had remembered where I was, if only I had remembered the company in which we found ourselves—except I hadn’t. I hadn’t remembered a single thing. Me, being the foolish person that I was, I had gotten off of the phone with the Queen and come back here to Hera and her family, her family who didn’t know who I was to her—and I had put my arm around her waist as if we were still back in the Kingdom, as if we were around my species who understood certain things without needing explanations.
And it was too much of me to hope that somehow, that by some magical miracle, they hadn’t noticed my actions, because I had seen the way that the woman’s eyes had dropped and widened, and I had seen the way her brother started to frown too. And although I wasn’t looking at her, I had managed to fe
