“You want me to go back and give myself up in exchange for him,” I realised. “Yes, of course. Isn’t that what you want, Edith?” For a moment, I did. After all, it was because of me that he was now a prisoner. He went back for me. He had chosen me when I had believed he would run home to his mother. It would be a fine thing, a relief, in fact, to sacrifice myself for Simon. “It’s the only way you can fix what you’ve done,” she said. “Would it be so bad to be Princess of Gwynedd, after all?” With that, the fog instantly cleared. I blinked, appalled that for a moment I had fallen under her spell,
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