"Did you just say 'my mother'..." Lumine's expression changed for the first time, and the cold amusement in her eyes was replaced by genuine shock as she stared at Max with disbelief. "Are you Caelira's son?"
The five surrounded elves behind Jessica also froze when they heard those words.
Jessica's eyes widened slightly, and the sword in her hand trembled for a brief moment. Caelira's son. Those three words struck her heart with a force greater than any attack Lumine had launched against them.
She had heard rumors from the older members of the third faction, stories whispered in the darkness of the Elf Prison, stories about Divine Queen Caelira leaving the elf race, marrying a human, and giving birth to a child who should have been the hope of their bloodline.
