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There are probably better times to raise your opinion on the subject than when you're waiting for Princess Despina's help, though.

"If nothing else, I hope I've been careful enough about my magic," you muse. A difficult proposition, given how you spend your time, but you imagine you'd have noticed if any spies were actually inside your home. "I imagine things will be awkward if she finds out what I am and what we did. For you especially."

Letha suddenly looks very uncomfortable. Or, you realize on examining her expression further, she's been very uncomfortable this entire time, and the prophecy's resurgence is only part of the reason why. She clears her throat. "About that."

"Well, it wasn't like I could have gotten out of this without explaining," Letha mutters, more to herself than you.

She's going to make you ask the question, apparently. "Letha. Did you tell Princess Despina the truth about the prophecy? About us?"

"Can you imagine how much worse it would be if I didn't tell her and she found out much later? If she was finding out now?" Letha runs a hand over her hair. "That isn't what you want to hear, is it? Yes, I told her. I told her two years ago."

Despite your suspicions, the words hardly make sense to you at first. Two years, the woman who rules the kingdom in all but name and likely will rule it completely in a matter of months has known that every claim you've ever made to her is a lie. That you never saved the world, that you never slew any demons, that you aren't even a proper mage. "She could have us killed," you say. Your head doesn't feel like it's properly attached to your shoulders. Maybe you should be sitting down.

"Easily," Letha agrees. "She hasn't. Look, how could I not have told her? I love her, and I'm going to marry her. Are you telling me you wouldn't tell the truth to someone you were going to marry? Or were you only planning on marrying someone who knows it already? Because you have one option left, and good luck talking him down from his mage tower long enough to swear you any vows."