Miri repeated herself. ‘We claim Britta as our own. She no longer belongs to Lonway or her dishonourable father. A person belongs to those she loves and those who love her back. She belongs to us. And she did not steal from us the right to be princess.’ Miri made eye contact with the other Eskelites around her to include them in her words, and then turned back to again face the man with the pistol. ‘We gave it to her.’
