“You are our daughter,” she said, turning to face me. Those snakes on her head stretched toward me, and I couldn’t resist the urge to reach up with a single hand so that they could wrap around my finger and hug it. “And Mab is also his daughter, is she not?” I asked. “It’s not the same,” she said, shaking her head. “Everyone knows he has no love for his other children. They were created purely out of a need to populate the realm at a time when there weren’t many living souls, when he was still bleeding from the betrayal of his first wife. But you were conceived in love, Estrella. Our intention
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