"Grimsbanne?" Aries whispered, blinking, watching Abel draw his head back mildly, creating a palm-length distance between their faces. "You have a different name?"
"It's still Abel."
"But a different family name…" she trailed off as realization dawned on her.
Aries had read the history of Haimirich and ignored the details that didn't make sense. But now that she remembered it, there was a time back in Haimirich, when Abel took her out to the Capital and told her a story about his family. Or rather, like what he claimed it, the first emperor's family — although there was no such thing written in the records.
But with this piece of information laid out on the table, that story he told her in a nonserious manner suddenly made sense.
"That story you told me back then…" she paused, seeing him nod even before she could finish. "… you have sisters?"
"I do. Three, to be exact."
"Where are they?"
