Chapter7: Stay!

LORRY SPRINGSTONE'S / KELLY THOMPSON'S POV When the majordomo Tina escorts me to the obviously renovated guest room of the palace, Jason's words kept echoing in my mind, their true meaning unclear.    I settle into the lavish shelter, my mind races with conflicting emotions. The opulent surroundings are really a stark contrast to the quite simple life I've led for the past six years, and I can't help but feel out of place. This turns out indeed to be a life so foreign to me now. Anyway, that's not why I am here. So I leave my personal feelings aside and stop the contemplation of the luxuries of my room. I unpack right away my medical equipment and set up a makeshift lab on the ornate writing desk. Then I begin the medical analysis of my patient's samples although it's already quite late.  And as I am examining the first elements, my thoughts keep drifting back to the frail crown prince in the royal chamber. Could he really be my son Eden? The timeline fits, but he looks so different fr