C14 The Name They Erased Twice

For a long moment, nobody in the chapel moves.

"She's been dead for years," my aunt says again, quieter this time, like repeating it might make it true. "I was there. I saw the body."

"Did you," the Queen says, "or did someone simply tell you what to believe, the same way they told April what to believe about her own mother's fever?"

The question lands like a slap, and my aunt flinches