Page | 14 guarantee that my child would be so fortunate. Something far, far worse could be waiting for them. I knew Rudy would protect them whether they had green hair or not. Eris would do the same, and so would Roxy. My head told me they would, but my heart still worried. It didn’t take long to realize why. I knew about the Laplace Factor. I knew why the color of my hair was green, and why Rudy had gotten a bit uneasy over the subject a while back. What if the child I gave birth to turned out to be Laplace? I wondered, What would Rudy do? It wasn’t his priority now, but he was gathering forces to do battle with Laplace in eighty years. If my child really were Laplace, then, given what Rudy had done so far… Well, I couldn’t help but wonder. I believed in Rudy. I wouldn’t doubt him for a second. But…what would he do? What would I want him to do? My mind spun over these thoughts for so long that I didn’t get another wink of sleep that night. I comforted myself with the fact that there was no way to know if the child’s hair would be green. If their hair turned out to be any other color, we’d be fine. It was green. Rudeus I NAMED THE BABY Sieghart. The names for my girls, Lucie and Lara, came from their mothers, while my son Arus was named after a famous hero in history. I decided to take inspiration from the invincible hero in my old world, Siegfried. I considered leaving it at