Egg? World Tree?
Evangeline felt as though her thoughts were lagging behind her body, her mind struggling to catch up with the weight of what Aestus had just explained.
For a brief moment, she almost believed he was mocking her, feeding her some elaborate lie simply to enjoy the look on her face when realization struck. It would not have surprised her; fae were known for such amusements. Yet when she looked at him, there was no laughter, no teasing glint in his inky eyes. His expression was flat and disturbingly sincere.
"He said the last of his kind were… taken down," she murmured slowly, trying to piece everything together. If Hades truly came from the World Tree, then that meant he had no blood relatives at all. No siblings, no parents, no kin in the way humans understood it. Unless… unless those six fae born from the egg were considered his family?
