Akasan was invested. "Your mother… isn't from here?"
Ten scowled. "Do you remember the age that you first gained consciousness? For most that age was 4 or 5. But I have a photographic memory. I can still vividly remember floating weightlessly in my mother's womb. I still remember how she looked. Her skin was colorless, her eyes were golden, she was old, maybe sixty or older, and her hair was white. Allegedly Jack left this country to return to Olympia after you were born. Nyx had some ties with the Holy Realm, and they agreed to give her a test subject for experimentation, a woman. Jasper and Gamma ran the entire thing. They forcefully bred her until she successfully bore a child. If you were ever curious on how I got my name, I was experiment number ten."
Akasan frowned. "Well they're all gone now. What're you going to gain by visiting your mom's homeland?"
"I want to know where I come from. That's all."
