Leonarya felt her knees slacken at Kyran's words. Her mother was here?
Was the woman that foolish? She even forgot, or rather didn't deem it necessary at the moment to slap Kyran for using the Queen title on her mother. She had told him more than once not to do so. But she relegated the disobedience to shock. She was shocked too.
"Where is she?" Leonarya asked, wondering that perhaps the gods were in her favor this time around.
"She is in the outer court."
Leonarya nodded, and then waved him out of her presence.
Kyran took a bow and hurried, wise in knowing the unstable state of Leonarya. Leonarya, whose mind had started down the memory lane again.
