Kira walked down the corridor of the medical centre holding Maya's hand, the little girl skipping along beside her.
She seemed all happy and more bubbly after Kira had given her a grand tour of the estate. Kira found herself smiling at the girl's happiness.
They had come to visit Sasha and Jerry, and Kira had given her blood sample to see if it really could help the boy.
Maya had refused to be left behind, and so here they were, the two of them, making their way toward the nurses' station.
She was almost there when she caught the voices. She slowed down without meaning to.
The nurses were clustered behind the station, heads bent together, and they did not see her coming.
"…all I'm saying is the timing is strange," one of them murmured. "Eight years, not a single breach. Then she arrives, and suddenly the Umbras walk straight into the palace? You can't tell me that's nothing."
"You think the Queen is selling information to her father?"
