A place where planes flew like the birds here, somehow carrying people in their bellies, taking them unharmed to faraway destinations. A realm where children played outside in areas called yards, amusing themselves with toys designed to keep them happy. It was when he’d been speaking of them that he started to tell her of his childhood, long before he’d come to the Palace. “When I was five,” he said now, “I wandered into Meelo and Damir’s lab in this series of rooms we shared. They didn’t call it a home, not like people do on Regina’s side. And it wasn’t. I never had the feeling of really belonging there or being free to express myself like the children I’ve watched in Regina’s neighborhood. It was simply a place where we all lived together. One afternoon, they were in another part of it, working on something, and didn’t notice that I was looking at pictures of myself on their monitors. I’d seen my face in mirrors before, so I knew those were images of me.” Arez wanted to ask him what a mirror was, but given her fatigue, it was too much of an effort, so she simply listened.
What do You think about Illicit Desire: Outlawed Realm, Book 2 (2012)?
