Forty-three: Piper Powell Things I’d found out in the past week: the first thing was that I’d been lied to my entire life about the identity of my mother. Lydia Powell hadn’t been my mother. Willa Matheson had been my mother. Willa Matheson had also had an affair before she had had me. An affair with Ransom Tanager, one that had resulted in Oliver and Olivia Oswin. Both of whom had been adopted by Emma Oswin nee Matheson because they were EVOS. Which meant Oliver and Olivia were my brother and sister. They were also Ransom’s brother and sister. Because I had a different father and different mother, Ransom and I fortunately were not related. If we had been, I think that might have broke me. But I was the daughter of an EVO and a human. Which meant that my blood could cure EVOS if th