“This child isn’t yours, Ahmann! I am not yours! We are human beings and do not belong to anyone. This is where you fail time and again, and why my people will never bow willingly to you. You cannot own people.” “You parse words like a khaffit to deny what you know is just,” Jardir said. “Would you deny the child the chance to know its father?” Leesha laughed, the sound harsh and biting. Her aura colored with disdain, and it stung to see it directed at him. “You have over seventy children, Ahmann, and you barter them like casks of ale. How many of them do you truly know?” Jardir hesitated, and
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