Hazel was sleeping next to him. She looked exhausted and didn't stir at all when Ranon tightened his embrace around her.
He was thinking of a wild theory in his head, but there was nothing that made sense to him. Hazel couldn't be River. How could that be possible? Even if she had undergone extensive surgery to change her face, she couldn't change her height.
Not to mention, there was no record that Hazel had been away from her family for a long period of time. Such a surgery would need a lot of time to recover, so her family would have noticed if she had gone missing.
There was no record of such a surgery, either. Even those performed by shady doctors.
Therefore, Ranon had to cross out that option. But that was the only thing that made sense, in a way, for him to explain Hazel's weirdness and the relationship between her and River.
