Chapter 26

Arya

"Oh, my god," I mumble under my breath.

Is this true? Is this really happening? Or this is just a hallucination because I was sick and distressed last night and this is just an aftermath of the emotional suffering I have experienced before?

I shake my head and blink rapidly, my hand still wrapped around the doorknob. The voice doesn't speak again, which gives me the idea that hey, maybe it is just an illusion.

With a sigh, I open my bedroom door and go inside, confident now that I probably just need some sleep.

But then, the yelling in my head starts.

"Really?" the female voice asks incredulously, like she doesn't grasp how I have the audacity to behave like this, or even the audacity to exist. "Are you really just going to ignore me like that? What an ungrateful human you are."

I slam the door in fright at the sudden reappearance of the voice.

"Arya?" Queen Helena calls from downstairs as she hears the slam. "Is everything okay?"

I don't answer. I just run to my bed and push my