‘Yes, of course I was scared!’ she burst out, shoving her tea aside with such a brusque gesture that it splashed onto her bluish grey dress. ‘Maybe you wouldn’t even care! Maybe you’d be disappointed in me! Maybe the last thing you wanted was more parents, after those … those …’ Her voice drifted off into the territory of sheer unspeakability. Plenty of humans would have been proud to call themselves your parents. ‘Oh,’ I managed, throat constricting again. ‘I could have killed them, Em.’ She bit out the words without any of that casual fae cruelty, that joyful bloodlust of alves, that
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