Chapter 415: Stryg… hm?
“You aren’t just his First Mother, are you…? Stryg is your son,” Plum said with careful conviction.
“You don’t know what you speak of,” Aurelia muttered, unable to meet her gaze.
“Is that so? Then why are you crying?”
“...” Aurelia shifted her focus to her hands and the white healing spell swirling over Stryg’s injured chest.
Plum shook her head in disbelief, “I can’t believe I didn’t see it sooner. You look like him, or he looks like you, I guess. And it’s not just the hair. You both have the same button nose and the way you grow quiet and your eyes narrow ever so slightly when you’re about to kill someone like right now.”
Aurelia clenched her jaw but said nothing, though she looked at Plum from the corner of her eye.
“...Are you planning to kill me?” Plum asked with a steady voice.
“I’m debating it.”
“To keep your secret hidden. I understand. Though, if I die, Stryg won’t ever forgive—”