"Mom, please just tell me. It's been a life time of living in the mystery and then General Marcius told me that I was…" Markos paused as he considered how to phrase it. It was a delicate matter and it frustrated him. "A reminder of something that should have never happened to you. I suspected that is why you left me behind when you did."
"No. It was not like that at all." Krista's gaze softened and she fiercely shook her head in protest.
"Then why did they say that…" Markos started to ask but his mother raised her hand to indicate that he needed to stop a moment to listen to her. He closed his mouth and looked to her expectantly.
