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Tell me, Lumnos, why do you not feel like one of them?” He spun around, eyes narrowing. “Why do you feel like one of mine?”
my head had been filled with the buzz of voices.
“Happy reading, dear,” she chirped, strolling away. “And don’t forget why they banned these books for mortals in the first place.” “Why is that?” “Because an education is the most powerful weapon of them all.”
The Sophos Crowns have been researching it for centuries—breeding Descended with mortals, then breeding that child with a mortal, then breeding that child with a mortal, on and on for generations. The Kindred blood never fades. No amount of mortal blood can destroy it. Only the blood of another Kindred can do that.”
We were told only the Kindred could make it, and the supply they left was all used up. No one thought we’d ever see any more.”
“I want there to be no part of you that you hide from me because you fear it’s a part I will not love. I treasure your darkness as much as your light.”
“You’re just a healer, Mother.” She smiled a pitiful smile, one of secrets and regret. “Diem, I have never been just a healer.”
“Don’t mistake the pain of change for failure.”
“Blessed Kindred,” Doriel breathed. “The lost realm. The stories are true.”