Hailey Majestic had to accept her status as a Watcher abandoner.

Theo Majestic's third child sat on a bed in a room. The room was one of several bedrooms located within the Soynite spaceship she traveled in. A tray of food sat next to her. Hailey let the tray's hard blue rest on the blue comforter as she pondered on what Vera Mod did at the moment.

Was Vera eating? Was she on the hunt for the child who had left her?

Like Hailey's distant aunt, Nerra Majestic, Vera was a Bloodhound.

If she desired it, Vera could find Hailey. The teenager hadn't hidden her anger from the woman. She had let it loose, then she had put a long distance between herself and Watcher Vera.

Hailey knew Vera well enough to expect the woman to track her down. The Watcher didn't consider Hailey to be a girl who could protect herself with ease.

As she kept her distance from the woman who had raised her, Theo Majestic's third child bathed in peace inside the spaceship.

No Vera.

No Lock Tannis.

No former Highs who were allied with Lock Tannis.

Lock Tannis's people had changed the way planet Soy looked. Freeman people had made Soynite people leave the planet they loved. Due to Lock Tannis and his existence, Hailey had been forced to leave her home planet. She had moved in to a huge space station, a space station she was no longer found in.

Hailey had left home on her own free will. She was not her younger sister. She was not Anne Majestic, who had been kidnapped by her own Watcher.

Their father was missing. Their eldest brother, Nick Majestic, lived with their mother. Hailey hoped her eighteen-year-old brother still lived with Lilly Majestic, at least. Teenagers need to be with their families. Even though thirteen-year-old Hailey had left Vera Mod, she had done it for a good reason.

Theo's third child had spent too many years being away from her male parent.

The mission was simple.

Hailey Majestic needed to find her father.

The issue was that Hailey didn't know where to look. The non-issue was that Hailey could go to a place and Theo Majestic might go there.

In addition to having to find her father, Hailey needed to find Lovely Windsore.

The girl's duty was to serve the six Highs. It was her duty to find the blind Lovely and help make her life easier. Doing that might make Hailey smile. It would satisfy her.

Freeman satisfaction involved bleeding Soynites. Lovely could bleed. If she bled, it wouldn't be good. Her sight had been stolen, and she deserved better.

She did not deserve to live as a person without the power to see.

Hailey wouldn't bring unwanted dismay to Lovely. Her plan was to help her, give her the assistance she deserved to have, give her the assistance she needed to have.

All the Highs needed assistance. Those six children had become Soynite royalty because of Hailey's father.

Contact.

Hailey needed to make contact with her father. She needed to make contact with Lovely Windsore. She needed to make contact with Cape Majestic. Soynite Highs were outside Hailey's traveling spaceship, and the girl needed to make contact with them.

Hailey bit into a piece of red fruit.

If bad fortune was far away from her, she would find her father before the next day. Or maybe she would find someone else of great importance.

After reaching the spaceship's cockpit, Hailey sat in the pilot's chair.

The bottoms of Hailey's shoes made contact with the hard and blue floor as she pointed her blue eyes to the spaceship's tinted windshield. It was a different blue floor than the one belonging to Hailey's bedroom in the building where Vera had hugged her.

Warmth covered Hailey as she sat. She put the spaceship's heating system to good use. Warmth had surrounded her when Vera hugged her, but that moment was over. Like Hailey's time with her Watcher.

The spaceship's warmth was like blood through a person's body. Hailey hoped Cape Majestic, Nova Majestic, Nick Majestic, Lilly Majestic, and other Majestics who had rode in spaceships enjoyed precious warmth as Hailey herself enjoyed the time she spent away from a woman who had made rage run through her.

The bright lights at the spaceship's front continued sending great illumination forward, fighting outer space's natural darkness.

In the distance was a structure.

Like the walls of the home Hailey had left, the structure's walls were blue.

Soynites favored blue.

Windows were in the space station's walls. Some of its windows were wide. Some of its windows were small. Huge windows were situated in the massive hangar's walls, giving Hailey a view of several spaceships that reflected the illumination spreading from the light fixtures above them.

A Soynite space station.

Hailey moved a hand into her pants pocket, the same pocket that kept her Soynite teleportation stone safe.

The girl stood inside the hangar soon after that. She had teleported the entire spaceship into the huge room. The light Hailey had seen outside the structure now bathed her in its radiant glow. She headed toward the door at the other side of the room, which would take some time to get to. The teleportation stone sat in the girl's pants pocket, but Hailey could afford to walk within a space station that wasn't the one she had left Vera in.

When she was six feet away from the door, it opened.

A woman with orange hair and green eyes pinned her gaze on Hailey's face.

"Who are you?" the woman said, speaking Soynite.

"My name is Hailey Majestic," Hailey said. But just because her last name was Majestic, it didn't act as evidence that her father was Theo Majestic himself. "I'm Theo Majestic's third child. He had children with Lilly Majestic, my mother. I know it's probably hard to believe."

"I'm going to read your mind," the woman said. Hailey nodded her head. She waited. "You're telling the truth. It's a pleasure to meet you, Hailey. My name is Betty Fly. I'm the Watcher of Lena Fly. Her original name is Lovely Windsore."

Hailey's heart beat quicker, harder.

She might never be as fortunate as she was now. Of all the space stations she could have discovered and headed into, she had found the space station harboring one of the six Highs in the entire universe.

As warm happiness flooded her, Hailey grinned.

"I was looking for her," Hailey said. "Well, I was looking for my father, but Lovely is a person I wanted to see, too. Lena, I mean."

Lovely Windsore was Lena Fly.

Lena Fly was Lovely Windsore.

"Can I see her?" Hailey said.

Betty turned her head to the right, then released a burdened breath, as if she had spotted a Freeman spaceship fleet.

"Listen, Hailey," Betty said. She moved her hands to the girl's shoulders. "Turn around, then go back to wherever you came from. Lena is not someone you want to meet. She isn't like her father, Boone. And she will hurt you. I'm sorry we might never get to know each other better, but you don't want to be in the same place as Lena Fly. She was harsh to others as a child, and she's even worse now. She's blind and she's cruel. She doesn't hurt me, but you're not me. If you stay here, you will get hurt."

Hailey fiddled with her fingers.

Perhaps Lena Fly, also known as Lovely Windsore, was blind and cruel. But Hailey's father had made her into a ruler. A ruler needs to be helped and served by their people.

Hailey shook her head.

"She isn't going to hurt me," Hailey said. "I want to help her. I want to serve her. Lena is one of my Highs."

"Hailey, please," Betty said. "Just leave. Lena is-"

"Lena is what?!" a voice roared.

"I'm sorry, Hailey," Betty said, as if she had thrown a bellma at Theo Majestic's third child.

She moved aside, letting the blonde in the room see the person taking steps toward the hangar.

A teenage girl held a white cane, which she swung from side to side as she moved in the hall bordering the hangar. She wore a green shirt and blue jeans. Her black shoes moved against the floor. Like Betty, she sported orange hair strands. Hailey couldn't see the girl's eyes, because dark sunglasses hid them. She came to a stop as light bathed her long hair.

Lovely Windsore. Lena Fly.

Hailey looked at Lena, but Lena could not look at her.

Blindness. That was what Lena Fly had been struck with. Hailey already had that information. After all, Vera had informed her Lena Fly had become blind. That information had been tortured out of a person.

Poor Freeman.

Poor Lena.

Lena Fly was blind and Hailey Majestic was not.

"Who are you talking to, Betty?" Lena Fly said. She kept her head trained forward, unable to see Hailey, unable to see Betty. "I heard a girl's voice."

"My name is Hailey Majestic," Hailey said. "I'm the third child of Theo Majestic."

Lena scoffed.

"I'm not surprised Theo Majestic lied about not having children," she said. "People only disappoint. Your father is just like everyone else."

Vera had disrespected Hailey's father with no shame. Lena had disrespected Theo Majestic with no shame.

Hailey fiddled with her fingers.

"What do you look like?" Lena said.

"I have blonde hair," Hailey said. "My eyes are blue. And I'm thirteen years old. I will be fourteen on December twenty-fifth."

"I didn't ask for your birthday!" Lena yelled. "And I also didn't ask for your age!"

Lena hadn't asked for Hailey's birthday, and she hadn't asked for the blonde girl's age, but Hailey had assumed it was information her High would have preferred to know.

"Sorry, Lena," Hailey said, her hands shaking. She took a step back. Betty put a hand on her shoulder, then rubbed it, trying to give Hailey comfort. "I'm really sorry."

Wetness came from Hailey's eyes.

Betty had warned her about Lena, but the blind girl was her High.

Hailey cried. She cried loud enough for Lena and Betty to hear.

"You're weak," Lena said. She smiled, fierce and unkind. "I can hear you crying."

Betty placed a hand against Hailey's back. Watcher Vera Mod had put her hand against the teenager's back many times, but she had stopped being able to help Hailey. Vera had caused her charge discomfort more than once, but she was also a woman who had brought the younger Soynite comfort.

Despite all the love Vera had shown Hailey, the girl had left the Watcher. She had left the Watcher in the large place they had lived inside for years.

"It's okay, Hailey," Betty said.

Hailey touched the tears on her face. They were warm, but they weren't able to destroy Lena's spiteful nature. But Hailey's emotional pain was temporary. It would leave her. She had left her Watcher, and the awfulness dwelling in her would leave.

"I know, Betty," Hailey said.

As her blue eyes shined with tears, the girl with the power to see looked at the girl who could not look at her.

"I have to kneel for Lena." Hailey said.

She went closer to the other girl, then brought her knees against the hard floor. Hailey bowed her head, kneeling for a member of the latest generation of Highs.

"She's kneeling for you," Betty said.

"Good, weakling," High Lena Fly said. "Kneel for your High."

Hailey Majestic had escaped Watcher Vera Mod. She had found the blind Lena Fly, who was the same person as Lovely Windsore, and that girl put cruelty into the universe. But that could change. Hailey could make Lena be less cruel. She could.

Maybe people would kneel for Hailey Majestic.

One day.

Of course, unbeknownst to Hailey Majestic, she would become the next Freeman leader.

Unbeknownst to Hailey Majestic, she would become Supreme High of the Soynite Highs. Like her father had been.

Unbeknownst to Hailey Majestic, she would drop her belief that all life is precious.

For now, though, she kneeled for her less than kind High.

"Keep kneeling," Lena said. "Say Lena Fly is the greatest High of the Highs."

"Lena Fly is the greatest High of the Highs," Hailey said, obeying the High she kneeled for.

"Stand, weakling," Lena said.

Hailey stood.

Vera had called Hailey weak. Lena had called Hailey a weakling.

People had called Hailey negative words, but being a pacifist doesn't mean you are weak. It means you aren't willing to bring harm to other people.

Just because Hailey was a pacifist, it didn't mean Theo Majestic's second daughter was weak.

Would Lena, who made it seem as if she was tougher than Hailey, hurt the thirteen-year-old Soynite?

Betty had warned Hailey about Lena. The orange-haired girl's Watcher hadn't disguised her belief that Lena was a cruel person. And Hailey had experienced Lena's cruel nature. So far, though, Lena had never harmed the pacifist with physical violence.

Hailey had witnessed real violence.

She had seen it on planet Soy. Boris Endman had tried murdering her father, his former friend.

She had seen real violence inside the home she had left. Freeman people had tried murdering her and Vera, a woman she still loved. Despite what Vera had done to Hailey, the younger Soynite did not want her dead.

Hailey looked at Lena's sunglasses, yearning to see her eyes.

"Can I see your eyes, please?" Hailey asked.

"Okay, weakling," Lena said. "You need to hold my cane for me, though."

Hailey grabbed the white cane. She was not blind at the moment, and she hoped she would never need to use a white cane to get to places she needed to go. It was great Hailey had never been blinded. It was not great that High Lena Fly had been blinded.

Lena brought her slim fingers against her sunglasses, took them off.

Pale gray eyes.

"My eyes used to be beautiful green ones," Lena said. "Betty told me that they're gray now."

"Your eyes are still beautiful," Hailey said.

All Soynites were attractive.

All Freemans were attractive.

One advantage of being born as a Soynite or Freeman was that you had been born with fine vision and an attractive face.

Lena did not have fine vision. She didn't have vision at all. The power to see was not hers, and she knew there was a possibility Lena Fly was the only blind Soynite in the universe. Her eyes hadn't been taken out, but they were useless. Lena couldn't use them to see Hailey. She couldn't use them to see the wonderful universe's beauty.

A scowl manifested on Lena's face. She smiled. Then she put on her dark sunglasses.

"Give me my cane," she said, extending her pale hand toward Hailey.

Hailey gave Lena the white cane.

Lena struck the girl's leg with the narrow object, making Hailey yelp.

She set her knees against the hard floor, her leg sore. The urge to see her two specific women slithered into Hailey, but she strangled it. She could not see Lilly Majestic, her biological mother. She could not go back to Watcher Vera Mod, who would unleash violence on Lena if she saw how the blind High treated her.

Don't call her eyes beautiful, Betty telepathically said to Hailey.

Telepathy.

Betty did have that power.

Hailey's father had possessed telepathy for years, many years, but he preferred to not invade the mind privacy of others. Unless he had to.

I miss you, Father.

Hailey's hands and knees pressed against the blue floor while wet drops plunged. Noises left her.

"My eyes are beautiful," Lena said, wielding her narrow weapon that wasn't meant to be a weapon. "You are crying now, weakling, but you will love me. You will love me and I will never love you. You serve High Lena Fly, originally known as Lovely Windsore. You kneel for greatness. Be grateful. Too few Soynites get the opportunity to kneel for the great and powerful Lena Fly. If my powers were with me, you would see more of my greatness."

While Hailey rubbed the leg Lena had struck with the white cane, she didn't stop being aware Lena had implied she had possessed powers, powers she didn't have in the present.

Why?

"What happened to your powers?" Hailey asked.

"They were stolen from me," Lena said, the sunglasses hiding her pale gray eyes, sightless eyes. "They were taken away when my sight was taken away."

Hailey had questions.

Her leg was sore. Too sore. She grimaced, cried more.

She was a Pure, but she had never developed the power to heal. She had always been a powerless Pure. If she lived long enough, she would possess every Save, but being in possession of every Save was not Hailey's reality in the present. She was not like her father, whose location was unknown to his second daughter.

"My leg really hurts!" Hailey said.

Lena grinned, showing her white teeth. Maybe the sightless teenager would bite her if the opportunity presented itself.

The blind High turned, then started putting distance between her and the kneeling Hailey.

"You whine too much, weakling," Lena said. "Betty, heal her!"

When Lena was gone, Watcher Betty Fly moved onto her knees in front of the already kneeling Hailey.

"I was already planning on healing you," Betty said. Hailey moved onto her butt, then moved her blue pants leg to reveal the injured leg. Betty brought a hand to the sore spot, then the pain vanished. "I'm extremely grateful you're here, Hailey Majestic, but you won't form a meaningful bond with Lena. She is a monster. Do you understand me when I say that? You never should have come here. You're with her now, and that isn't good. It's not good at all. If you're going to stay here, make sure you keep your distance from her."

No.

Lena Fly was Hailey's High.

Yes, she had hurt Hailey's leg, but Betty had healed her. Any pain Lena would hurl into Hailey would be worth it. Soynites needed to give their Highs attention, kindness, and comfort.

"She's my High," Hailey said. "I'm looking for my father, but I found Lena. I need to serve her. I can't go back home. I left my Watcher, Vera. We argued before that, and I don't want to see her. She didn't tell me that my mother and brother came to see me. That was years ago, but Vera told me about it today. I left her, then I found you and Lena."

"You found a woman and a cruel High," Betty said. "But you can stay with us, Hailey. I'll be good to you. Lena won't be. But I will. Lena's father, Boone, is like you. He's a great Soynite. I haven't seen him in years, though. When the invasion was happening, he went with me and Lena. Me and that girl needed to reach your father. It was great that Boone was with us, but his wife got killed before that. Lena's mother is dead. When we were outside the spaceport, Boone bid farewell to me and Lena, then I never saw him again."

The light in the hall cloaked the two Soynite as Boone's absence stayed as real as Hailey's terrible pain had been. Boone's daughter had brought that pain.

Where was Boone Windsore?

Wherever he was, and whatever he did, Boone had a daughter who lived inside a space station that was a long distance from the planet where he had bid farewell to his daughter.

Hailey looked at her leg, which Betty had healed.

"Thank you, Betty," Hailey said, moving her pants leg to re-conceal her bare skin. "I don't believe Boone is dead. He is going to find you again. He's going to find you and Lena. And she's wrong, by the way. She is going to love me."

"Never let her catch you saying that she's wrong," Betty said. She grasped Hailey's wrists. "I have all of the Saves, but it came at a really bad price. I'm powerful, but I can't hurt Lena. I won't. If she hurts you, don't expect me to punish her. I have to do what she wants me to do, but it's not just because she's my High. Because of me, she can't see. She changed after that incident on planet Still. It's my fault."

What happened on Still?

"It's not your fault," Hailey said to the Watcher who wasn't her Watcher. "You can't blame yourself."

"I can," said Lena's caretaker. "If you knew what happened on planet Still, you wouldn't say that I can't blame myself."

Lena, like her sight, was absent.

"Can you tell me what you know?" Betty said. "You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. But you did reveal yourself as Theo Majestic's third child, so now I have questions."

Hailey told the Watcher about Nick Majestic, Nova Majestic, Anne Majestic. She spoke about other members of her family. She talked about Vera. She gave Lena's Watcher information. She told Betty about the dreadful truth.

"The universe can be a cruel place," Betty said. The Watcher continued kneeling as Hailey stayed seated on the floor. "I hope you find the people you're looking for, Hailey. Anne's Watcher sounds like a terrible person. You have to be pretty bad to take a baby away from her family. And don't worry about having to speak to Lena. I'm going to tell her everything you told me."

"Okay," Hailey said. "Lena deserves to know. She also deserves to see."

"She does," Betty said. "Lena has been blind for years, but she hates it. She wants her sight back. In any case, I have to check on her. You should stay away. Not from this place in general, I mean. I mean that you can't be around Lena. It's for your safety."

"I'm going to be fine," Hailey said. She rubbed her cheeks with her hands. "I'm here to help. I have to serve High Lena Fly. And maybe my father will come here. I'm with you and Lena. I don't know how long it will last, but I don't plan on leaving soon."

"You're a good Soynite, Hailey," Betty said. "Can I hug you? Will that be okay with you?"

Hailey nodded.

"Yes," she said.

She and Betty hugged each other. Hailey closed her blue eyes, far away from her father, far away from her mother, far away from her three siblings, far away from the dreadful Lock Tannis, and far away from Watcher Vera Mod.

Vera had informed Hailey about Lena's status as a Soynite who had been blinded.

Lovely Windsore and Lena Fly were the same person. Vera had expressed doubt that Lena was still alive, but the blind High was alive. And Hailey had met her. She had kneeled for her High. She could help her High.

Hailey's hug with Betty reached its end too soon.

Theo's third child and Betty Fly moved through several halls, checking on Lena Fly being their goal.

They found Lena in a hall. She rested on a blue sofa, her sunglasses off and her cane not with her. Her sunglasses sat on the sofa's armrest, still. Their owner's rage had been wild. Lena's cane leaned against the piece of furniture, the sofa that Lena slept on. Lena's black shoes rested close to the cane, not far from the object the sight-lacking High had used as a tool to harm Hailey. Without her shoes, Lena's white socks were exposed.

"Her room is right there," Betty said, pointing to the bedroom across the sofa. She looked at Hailey, who fiddled with her fingers as Lena slept on the sofa near the thirteen-year-old and the Watcher. "It's all right, Hailey. She's asleep. She can't hurt you."

Betty moved an arm underneath Lena's back. She put another arm under the blind girl's legs. Hailey watched as the Watcher lifted their High away from the sofa. Because Betty possessed super strength, she carried Lena with extreme ease.

Hailey knew another Soynite who had every single Save at their disposal.

Betty Fly and Lena Fly had met Hailey's father outside a spaceport on planet Soy. The girl's father wasn't present, but his daughter had found two people he knew.

Hailey followed the two Soynites into the bedroom.

A photograph was taped to the wall. It displayed a man with orange hair and green eyes.

Boone Windsore, Hailey assumed.

A photograph of Hailey's own father had been taped to her bedroom wall. Before leaving Vera, the blonde teenager had moved the photograph into her backpack. She had left the backpack inside the spaceship she had parked in the space station's massive hangar.

Willing to help with Lena, Hailey moved the blue comforter on the bed. Betty lowered Lena onto it, then Hailey put the comforter on top of her High.

"Thanks, Hailey," Betty said. She stroked Lena's orange hair, then kissed her forehead. The Watcher's hand went to Hailey's shoulder. "Your father isn't here, but it's great that you are."

She gestured for Hailey to follow her. Theo Majestic's kid and Lena Fly's caretaker returned to the hall. Betty closed the door to the bedroom.

"Listen," Betty said. She jerked a thumb at the door behind her. "That girl in there is intelligent. She's struck you with her cane, but she's smart. I could be wrong, but Lena is your best chance at finding your father. If she wanted to, she could help Boris Endman find his granddaughter."

"But Boris joined Lock Tannis," Hailey said. "And Lena wouldn't want to find Alice."

"I know," Betty said. Hailey walked toward the closest piece of furniture in the hall, then sat on it. Her hands pressed against the soft blue. "If Lena wanted to find your father, she would make a reunion between the two of you more likely to happen. But Lena will never be your friend. She's sixteen years old. She's a little bit older than you, but you and her are so different. She also doesn't believe this universe is a good one. What you told me is going to make her hate life even more."

"I'll keep helping her," Hailey said. "All life is precious. Vera doesn't believe that, but it's the truth. Before I got here, I planned on helping Lena. Her life matters. I'm going to do my best to make her love life."

"You want to help a girl who hit you with a cane."

"I'm going to hit her with love."

Betty's hands went to her hips. She faced the door, the door that hid Lena's bedroom from view.

"You should've stayed with your Watcher," Betty said. "This space station is a home, but it's also the home of a Soynite who hurt Theo Majestic's daughter. You said her eyes are beautiful, and she hurt you for it. Perhaps you will make Lena into a better person. But that process will come with a lot of pain."

Hailey didn't move off the sofa. She brought her arm onto the armrest, the armrest that didn't have Lena's sunglasses on it, and the blonde and the orange-haired Watcher didn't bother to leave the hall.

Boone Windsore had departed with his daughter. He hadn't seen the harsh High his child had become. Lena could change.

"Lena hurt me," Hailey said. "Then I was healed. Pain leaves. No matter how many times she will hurt me, I am not going to give up on Lena."

"She would call you foolish," Betty said. "After Lena wakes up, she might put you in another terrible mood. She can't see. That gives you an advantage over her. If you want to know peace and comfort while staying with us, don't go near Lena."

"I have to," Hailey said. "I'm here to help my High. I can't do that by staying away from her."

"You told me that almost all of the former Highs joined Lock Tannis," Betty said. "I don't know what Lena's fellow Highs are like, but I hope they're not like her. Lena's personality is enough for me to believe that a High would partner up with someone as horrible as Tannis. She is the cruelest Soynite I've ever met. I warned you about Lena. I did. But you're stubborn, and you refuse to leave. I don't know if you will be successful, but the odds are attacking you. There's no hope for some people."

Multiple former Highs had sided with Lock Tannis, but they could revert to being great men.

For example, Hailey could influence Boris. She could make him choose peace over helping other Soynites spread death. Hailey needed to speak to Boris. That would help. It would help so much.

Unbeknownst to thirteen-year-old Hailey Majestic, she would end the life of Lock Tannis at the age of fifteen. She would become Great Leader Hailey Majestic, ruler of planet Free and its people. Freemans would kneel for her.

But she didn't know this.

She also didn't know she would become Supreme High Hailey Majestic.

Regardless, Betty believed there was no hope for some people. Hailey knew what her own belief was.

"I believe there is," Hailey replied. Betty sat next to her. "Several Soynites betrayed their people, but I'm here. And I can help. Before I came here, I was traveling in a spaceship I took from my home. I didn't expect to find you and Lena, but I did. I kneeled for my High. I kneeled for Lena. You said that she's intelligent. If I form a bond with her, she can help me find my father. She can make me realize things I haven't noticed."

Lena was gray-eyed and real, yet not someone Hailey could consider a friend.

It seemed true Betty liked Hailey, but she had chosen not to punish Lena for harming the younger teenager.

Vera had hurt Hailey's feelings more than once, but she would never let someone else hurt Hailey without doing her best to make them suffer.

There was a balance.

"I'm sorry you don't realize that Lena won't let that happen," Betty said. "I probably got your hopes up by mentioning Lena's intelligence, but she won't use her clever mind to help you find your father. You would have an easier time trying to make your Watcher track down the man you're looking for."

Betty stood. She offered her hand, which Hailey grabbed. The Watcher helped the girl stand. She released the hand of Theo Majestic's third child.

"You're trying to reunite with your father," Betty said. "I'm sorry you found Lena Fly instead."

Lena had served Hailey derision.

Lena had hurt her.

Lena had no love for her.

But Hailey could turn the sightless ruler into a friend. She needed to try making that happen.

"I'm not sorry," Hailey said.

"You will be," said the Watcher.

She forced herself to smile.

"Enough negative talk, though," Betty said. "Let's find a bedroom for you to sleep in."

Betty moved.

Hailey followed.