CHAPTER 222: A PERFECT WORLD

SERAPHINA’S POV

I blink my eyes for only a second, and suddenly I'm in a garden with the sun setting, showing that half the day has passed. Half the day just breezed past me without being present, almost as if I’m running through today.

I'm startled for a second, not remembering coming here at all.

I could have sworn that I was back in the hall accepting my new title just a second ago. Yet, I'm sitting on a bench holding the book in my hands, its skin feeling and looking awfully familiar, as if I’ve had it long before now.

“How does it feel being Queen now?” A voice cuts through my train of thought from behind me.

I pause and look around, meeting my mother walking towards me in her always slowly paced walks. I’d never seen her run, even in times of distress and emergency, and always wished I could be half as regal and calm as she is.

“Mother,” I say, standing to my feet and hugging her for a while.

Somehow calling her my mother leaves a feeling of yearning in my heart, des