The Truth

"Tell me, who is my mother?" 

For Shinta, this inquiry had plagued her thoughts for years. It began with a seed of annoyance planted by her father's multiple marriages. Despite the abundance of consorts that adorned the Ouroboros palace, the identity of her true mother remained a mystery shrouded in secrecy. Time and again, Shinta had sought answers, but her inquiries yielded nothing but silence or evasion.

Undeterred by the veil of silence that surrounded her origins, Shinta employed her cunning intelligence and subtle manipulation to obtain the official Ouroboros royalty records. To her astonishment, she discovered a glaring absence: her father was listed as unmarried at the time of her birth. The revelation hinted at the possibility of her being born out of wedlock, a child of her father's illicit liaison.

"Am I a bastard?"