"So let me get this straight," Vella said, her head tilted slightly as she processed everything he had just told her, "you met that goddess woman again, she pulled you into some kind of memory space, and you watched her get betrayed by the people she trusted?"
Hajin nodded, his back resting against a tree in the flower field while his legs stretched out in front of him.
She let out a slow breath, her fingers playing with the edge of her sleeve while she turned it all over in her head.
"And this Jion person," she said, "the one sitting at the head of the table, the Goddess knew him?"
"Seemed like it," he replied, "she said his name like it meant something to her, like she had known him for a long time."
She let out another breath, her gaze drifting across the endless field of flowers that surrounded them.
"That makes it worse somehow," she said softly, "being betrayed by strangers is one thing, but being betrayed by someone you called family..."
