(Alnilam)
I knew Headmaster Fallon had been hiding something. The drastic measures he took after we hid Rigel had revealed I couldn't trust him. He wasn't under any curse or spell but was a forced participant in my mother's schemes.
To even call her a mother leaves a horrible taste in my mouth. I am accustomed to my father's indifference, which has shaped me to absorb painful truths. What our mother did to me, to my brothers has left me broken too but the way it has affected Alnitak and Mintaka is beyond something they have ever dealt with before.
I have to act as their shield now that Amaia is also incapacitated. She is the one who handles them when they are low, but not this time.
I embrace Min, trying to calm him down when the sentinel comes and announces the arrival of Hathial Kane. He had been impatient for Queen Adrnia's rescue and I wonder if he is here to take Rigel along or to formulate a plan.
"Permission granted," my father says with a sigh.
