"Mother?"
Lovelle looked away and sighed. "How unlucky. My heart has risen and fallen many times now. I'm happy to hear about my friend's successors. However, one of them has become a product of an experiment. The same has happened to my little boy. I didn't think it'd happen again."
Kanaru's eyes flickered. He looked away. "An experiment? I thought Emperor Neran only regulated your research. What do you mean… I'm a product of experiment, too?"
"Come, child. Sit down." Lovelle walked back to her throne, her hand gesturing to Kanaru. She sat down and wove another chair next to her armrest. "It wasn't me… I only took an interest in my father's work. It mirrored Neran's methods, so I chose to fuse both. You see, that solar flare that reshaped the world was not so sudden. Some people in the past already planned for its coming.
