Mercy appreciated any opportunity to talk to her mother as a person, rather than as a Monarch, but she was frightened by how much the war in the heavens had disturbed Malice. Frightened, because that had been Eithan. And she worried what that feeling of helplessness would drive her mother to do. “I’m sure Lindon and Yerin didn’t know,” Mercy said. “I have no doubt. I am concerned about how Eithan may have positioned them without their knowledge. How he may have positioned all of us.”
