Secret realizations

"Who is that person, master?" Azalea asked Ayden as they made their way back from the room they had just gone into.

Ever since they had come out of the room where they had gone to see Lorelei, Ayden's mood had changed into a very sullen one which bothered Azalea. She knew that the woman laying down there in a vegetative state, must be someone so close and dear to him.

'She cannot be his mother, can she?' her mind pondered. If she had heard the rumors around the palace well, his mother had died after she birthed him.

"It is my nana from when I was young. She had taken care of me till I had grown up," Ayden replied, his voice filled with so much bitterness and struggled talking.

Azalea thought in her mind if she could ask more questions from Ayden, who looked like someone that couldn't talk so firmly about the sick woman whom he talked about with pain. Nevertheless, she would just have to ask him, if she wanted to be sure of what she had seen minutes earlier.

"How did she beco