Alicia’s POV
I was sitting at my desk looking at all the information we had gathered. We had hit yet another dead end and it was incredibly frustrating to just carry on with daily life with this damn sword hanging over our heads. Caspian was out with some of the council members patrolling the borders where we had been attacked the most, and I was just taking a moment to myself. The envelope was sticking out from underneath the other paperwork and I pulled it out. My name was written on the outside to hide what information was inside.
I sighed and opened it. The first page was a letter explaining the contents that I typed up on the first day to make sure I had it all in order. The first page was a copy of my mother’s birth certificate. If there was one thing that I’d learned over the year
