She paced and fretted, but continued speaking, baring her soul while standing in the depths of her spirit. “At first, it was easy. I was just better than everyone else. And then, when I’d proven myself, I had a Sage and a Herald teaching me. My mother’s a Monarch! And still, you and Yerin—” “Eithan turned out to be the Reaper of Worlds,” Lindon pointed out. Mercy hesitated. “That’s…that’s true,
