Chapter 13.

My mouth hung open but no words came out, I didn’t know what to say so instead I stayed silent and waited for her to continue, hoping I wouldn’t swallow a fly in the meantime.

“This is the one I would like you to look in first and then you can pick whichever one you want to. Whenever you want to know something or your curiosity gets the best of you, you just come here and most of your questions will be answered. You can of course ask me or your f-“ she stopped and pinched her lips shut before nodding her head slightly and regaining her composure.

“-Or you can ask the King whom until you're ready, you'll call Rasmus. This is for whenever you want the answers and not ask the questions, it’s your family, your heritage, and your future,”

My heritage, my family, my future.

That was a lot to take in, especially the future part. I had given my future a lot of thought in the past, I just never thought that this would be it.

And again, something was tugging at me, as though I was being p