He’s trying to distract her, to divert the Queen’s attention from me. But the Queen doesn’t fall for it. Her cold dark eyes are still on me. “Because the True Child held our own power as well.” The fiery glow in her dark eyes flares as she considers me. “But we could not risk the Dark King’s court using our own True Child against us. And so we left him in the world of men, where he was no danger to our rule.”
