Olivia dropped her eyes to the floor, completely unable to meet anyone's gaze. Her hands shook violently in her lap as she kept twisting her fingers together over and over, the suffocating silence pressing down on her like a ton of bricks. Nobody rushed her. They all just waited, hungry for every single ugly detail of the truth.
After sucking in a shaky breath, she finally forced herself to keep going.
"So… I sent Oriana a letter," she whispered, her voice barely loud enough to carry across the deck.
"It took months before I finally got a reply." A sad little smile flickered across her face for just a second before it vanished completely. "She apologized for taking so long and explained that all her Luna duties had kept her swamped, so she couldn't write back any sooner."
Olivia swallowed hard around the massive lump in her throat.
