Then she whispered the answer none of them were prepared to hear.
"...I was Liora first."
The chamber fell into complete silence after the woman's words left her lips. Even the chains dragging behind her seemed to quiet beneath the weight of what she had spoken, as though the metal itself recognized that something more significant than ordinary confession was taking place. Marcus stared at her, his mind struggling to process the four words that still hung in the cold air between them. "...What?"
