Her voice softened.
"She brought you into our clan and insisted on taking you to meet her father, desperately hoping you might provide some clue to finding her twin sister. For ten years she'd been searching unsuccessfully without any progress whatsoever. Your presence gave her genuine hope for the first time."
Hearing these words, Leon suddenly understood with perfect clarity why Ira had been so immediately friendly and intensely protective of him since the moment he'd confirmed he'd arrived through a portal with strange symbols on it.
She saw me as a possible connection to her lost sister. That's why she saved my life multiple times.
The Archon asked a question herself, speaking with personal intensity rather than formal authority:
"Have you truly, genuinely come through a portal that had strange white symbols covering its surface? Are you absolutely certain, or could it possibly have been your imagination or a hallucination?"
