"Oh, really?" She seemed surprised, then looked at my mom without hesitation and said, "I didn’t know she was from Yare.”

I smiled faintly. "Not this mother here, but my biological mother. Her name was Lucille Avila, and she was probably from a noble family in Yare.”

"In that case, I wouldn't have known her. Our family is just middle-class. In Yare, we’re just an ordinary family." Hana's response was quick, and she was clearly distancing herself from any connection.

If their family was really