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Message: <blockquote data-quote="simmo" data-source="post: 1439950" data-attributes="member: 9744">Part 21 Now Would be a Good Timechapter 1 Unreliable NewsWhen Serena joined her friends again she thought to herself 'I have the love of my friends, the wisdom to know myself and this is the will of Tomeri'. She watched as Cade chatted with Andrew and noticed that the conversation was almost entirely one-sided with the halfling doing the majority of the talking. He never seemed to stop smiling either. Littleby sat a little distance away scribbling in one of his tomes and next to him sat Caleb polishing his large hammer.Serena felt a slight warmth in her locket and reached for it. She had a sensation as a presence was nearby and recognised it as belonging to her father.“We are very proud of you,” her father said. “You have come further than any of us could have hoped for.”“I don't know what to do now, should I go back to Gateway?" Serena thought. "To present myself before the high priest?”“Tomeri is aware of the level that you have reached. If you travel to her realm then you may get a more direct contact.” Serena's father assured her. “You are much further along the Path than the other Chosen of Tomeri.”“I think that I need to go to Gateway some time soon,” the see though to herself.“Perhaps in a little more time, there are still things left undone.” Her father's thoughts felt more distant as if he was further away or not revealing everything.“You're telling me,” Serena sighed and did not bother to go over the long list of things to do in her mind.“I'm sorry to say this but since my time in the Garden I have to come to a realisation. The woman whom I spent a portion of my life with in the last few years was not your step-mother.” Her father sounded more apprehensive and confused.“Sorry?” Serena was caught off guard by her father's revelation and her immediate response was not to believe it.“It wasn't her. There were some things that Miranda did which she stopped doing. I should have seen it sooner.” This time her father felt more certain in his thoughts, as if he had just made up his mind about it. “I do not believe that the woman who now calls herself Miranda Allman is not whom she says that she is.”“Father you are labouring under the illusion that she was ever a good woman,” Serena thought angrily.“I admit that she was not kind to you, but she was human at least.” Her father felt genuinely remorseful, ashamed and not having stood up for his daughter all those years.“That is an interesting insight,” Serena replied, not wishing to argue with her father further.“I could be wrong and I pray that I am.” The seer's father did not believe that he was wrong on the matter, but he hoped that he was. If his theory was true, then the consequences would be even more dire.“I don't know what to pray." Serena felt physically tired from the journey and emotionally worn out from seeing Roxanne and confronting the dragon. To have her father reveal his theory at this time was simply too much. She let go of the locket and turned her attention back to the others. "Bye father.”</blockquote>

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