Zoraya (Darya)
I stared at them.
The room had fallen oddly quiet. Too quiet. The walls seemed to hold their breath just like I had.
“Twins,” the healer said again, his voice soft and laced with a kind of reverence I didn’t understand.
My mouth parted slightly, but no words came.
My heart was pounding, thumping against my ribcage like a frightened creature desperate to escape.
My gaze flicked down to my belly, then back up to the faces around me.
Twins?
I didn’t… I didn’t know what that meant. Not really.
Two babies?
Was that even possible?
I looked to Queen Melody instinctively, my eyes wide with confusion and fear.
She must have seen the blankness in my stare, the absence of understanding in my silence, because her expression softened immediately.
She leaned closer and bru
