Reyna continued to visit Adam for several weeks and managed to never be caught. When she wasn't talking with the scientist, however, she was exploring the hotel.
Reyna had never eaten such exotic foods in the Hollow, but the hotel had a wide array of foods for the scientists, and she took full advantage of it. She could have sworn she even gained a few pounds.
She also loved looking at the interesting things the humans were studying. When Adam wasn't busy, she would bring him things like journals and glass jars and ask him what they were. Adam was a surprisingly patient teacher and taught her things that these scientists are studying. Sometimes he would go off on long tangents about things Reyna didn't understand, but she never told him that and appeared to look fascinated.
One day, Reyna was eating breakfast in the main dining hall when she felt a rumbling beneath her feet. "What is that?!" she shouted over the noise of the shaking items.
"Down!" a Drone yelled to her, shoving her to the ground. As Reyna fell to the ground, a giant stalk surfaced from beneath her and started to shake.
The stalk then started releasing Lambent polyps and the Drones all ran in fear. Reyna ran with them, but tripped over her green skirt.
A Theron Guard saw her and picked her up, carrying her from the scene. A group of soldiers all grabbed Hammerbursts and Boltoks, but as Reyna reached to grab one, the Guard stopped her. "Hide," he said in Tyran, pointing back towards the hotel rooms.
Reyna rolled her eyes as she ran away from the fight and back towards her hotel room. As she was running, she thought of Adam and ran to his door. The normal guards weren't there, and Reyna assumed they were fighting the Lambent stalks and Polyps.
She burst into Adam's room and he jumped as the door opened. "Reyna!" he exclaimed, shocked to see her coming through the door rather than a window. "What's going on?"
"The Lambent have breached the island!" Reyna exclaimed. "We need to hide!"
"I feared this would happen," Adam said, sighing. "But the cure is almost complete. But there's still the Locust variable I need to account for."
"Are you insane?!" Reyna exclaimed. "We need to hide!"
"If I don't find the cure soon, we're going to die anyways. The Lambent creatures will expose you and me to more Imulsion and we'll become just like them."
Reyna then noticed something and then gasped. "What's wrong with your hand?" she asked, not attempting to hide how scared she was.
Adam looked at his more glowing hand and sighed. "I injected myself with Imulsion cells, remember? It should fade away shortly."
Just as he said that, his hand stopped glowing and the ground beneath them shook once again. "We need to leave now!" Reyna exclaimed, clutching a table for support.
Adam looked at her and said, "I'm sorry Reyna. My work matters to me more. Get back into hiding. Save yourself."
"You idiot, I'm not in hiding! The Locust are my family!"
Reyna covered her mouth once she said this, and Adam's eyes widened. "What did you say?" Adam asked, not wanting to believe the words.
Reyna sighed and looked the scientist in the eyes. "Look, I haven't been completely honest with you," Reyna said. "The truth is, I'm not quite a human exactly. I grew up in the Hollows, raised by Locust and my mother."
"Who's your mother?" Adam asked, fearing he already knew the answer.
"My mother is Queen Myrrah," Reyna said, her voice hesitant to reveal this information.
Adam stared at her, wide eyed, as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Myrrah reproduced with a human?" he asked, barely able to get his words together.
Reyna nodded her head and Adam immediately asked, "Who is your father?"
"I don't know. My mother never revealed anything about my father ever, and I never found anything about him."
Adam went completely silent and stood there, staring at Reyna. "You lied to me," he said.
"Adam, I didn't mean it like that!"
"You lied to be this entire time!" Adam had started raising his voice at her, something she had never heard from the soft spoken scientist.
"Adam, please listen!"
"I thought that somebody else had survived the slaughter on Azura! I thought I wasn't alone anymore! But I am! I'm the only true human left on this island."
"Adam!" Reyna yelled, frustrated beyond belief. She swore a bit to herself in Locust before looking at him again. "You are not the only human left on Azura! I am still human, and I am still here for you."
"But you aren't human! Tell me, who do you want to win this war? The humans, or the Locust?"
Reyna was at a loss for words yet again. Before, she could easily say that she wanted the humans all dead, but Adam had changed her views. He was the first person to ever make her question Myrrah. If all humans were evil, why was this man so kind to her?
"I don't know," Reyna finally answered. "But it's not that simple! I grew up with the Locust! They're my family!"
"But you still aren't one of them! You are a human, yet you side with the species you committed genocide on your race."
"What are you talking about?! The humans forced us to attack!"
Adam back stepped away from Reyna a bit, as if he didn't quite understand her. "Say that again?" he asked.
"The humans forced us to attack them! They were trying to kill us with Imulsion! We were forced to fight back!"
"Are those the lies that Myrrah fed you?"
"What are you talking about?!"
"We didn't force them to attack! I tried to reason with Myrrah, but she was too impatient! I told her I just needed a bit more time, but she refused to see reason! She told them to attack us. The other humans didn't even know about the Locust! I was the only one who knew about their existence before Emergence Day."
Reyna's eyes filled with tears, not wanting to believe what was said to her. There was no way that her mother had lied to her about everything, was there? "You're lying to me!" Reyna said, her words muffled by her angry sobs. "You're lying!"
She then ran out of the hotel room, slamming the door behind her.