When Anna regained herself, she was on the floor, tears soaking her face and her entire body trembling with the weight of the recovered memories.
Suddenly, everything made sense.
The journals she'd found. Princess Orchid referring to her heats as a curse. Drax's suspicion when Anna, ignorant about the truth, had gone waltzing to his place to ask about said heats.
I was so stupid…
Anna thought of when she'd thrown Leila's death in AI Orchid's face back then and she cringed hard.
Foolish. Ignorant. You couldn't even keep your mouth shut for two seconds.
The memories still played on repeat in her head. Orchid's scream looped in Anna's brain. Anna hadn't ever heard anyone scream with such raw pain and hurt.
Anna felt an unknown emotion rise in her heart towards Orchid. She couldn't say she'd forgiven the Princess, but Anna now understood her.
She understood everything.
