209 To Be A Mother.

Lu'um had finally discarded the final fragment of sympathy she once had for her mother. It had taken five long millenniums, but her patience had finally run its course. 

To an uninformed person, it may have seemed that the circumstances surrounding Reed had been the origin of this bloody struggle, but this had actually been the result of a slow and steady culmination of entire lifetimes of grudges and bitter disagreements. 

Even so, Lu'um had tried her hardest not to rock the boat all her life, given the already precarious situation they were all a part of. They did not have the luxury of internal conflict, not when they had an insurmountable enemy right outside their doorstep...

And more importantly, she understood that the royal family could not afford to make another major blunder. 

Citlai, though superficially harmonious, was actually nothing more than a fragile piece of glass.