35 Lara Finds Some Answers

Lara stared at the book with trepidation in her heart. For one, the book was midsized. Her mother's book had been simply massive. She told herself that maybe it had only recorded her life up until that moment and not more but when she flipped it open and turned to the end, the words on the very last page made her heart skip. ‘And that's the life of Lara Trarko, daughter of Pritchard and Jaline Trarko, the Lady of Trarko House.’ But there, her resolve faltered. The information that made her heart cold was there, right there; just a flip of a page away. But was she really about to do this to herself? Was she about to curse herself with the knowledge of her own death? For minutes that seemed like hours, Lara wavered in between the two decisions. To see or not to see. Was this the reason her parents had asked her to come down here? To see her future etched down in some ethereal temple-library? And why was the book so small? Was she destined to die soon? Maybe that was why it was i