It seemed like the entirety of an eternity managed to surpass us in the time that it took for Hera to shut. I was agonisingly aware of every minute, knowing how much it was going to count against me when the time came for me to present them all to Aurora.
I was far from prepared for my meeting with her, but there was nothing that I could do about that now. It was a situation that was beyond my control, one that I was doing my very best to handle as best as I could.
“Hera.”
I didn’t want to alarm her in any way. I knew just as well as everyone else did that your emotions were in their most vulnerable state after shifting, and I had no intention of evoking het another forced shift. It would be anything but good.
The response that I had received from her was no more than a muffled mur
