It took Severus a whole night in the underworld just to return and confirm all that the old deity had said, exactly as he said it. According to him, Lythia had matched the old deity's statements, word for word.
So, when she was having breakfast with her family, Scarlet was holding Justin's hand and treating him with extra love and more care than usual. Little Justin who had no idea about the anxieties in his mother's heart was simply opening his mouth like a baby bird and enjoying the sweet pancakes she was feeding him.
After breakfast, she insisted on carrying him personally to one of the buildings in the outer area of the main castle which had been built into a library. She had named it Maddox library, after the man who made her wealthy in the underworld and here.