human
You've been told over and over how you were born in France, when Jack and I had the Château de la Tour, on the Loire. That was true--the one true thing. But you weren't born in the château. It wasn't for nothing that you learned French almost as easily as you breathed--and Latin, too. I suppose things like that are in people's blood. You are French. If I had left you where you were, you would have grown up Maxime Delatour. Delatour was your real father's name; he came originally of the de la Tours, but his branch of the family had gone down, somehow. Even the name was spelled differently, in the common way. But they lived in the same neighbourhood--that is how it all came about.