“Then you make them bleed for what they’ve done to you,” she said, the resolve on her face hinting at what she hadn’t dared to hope for, the very thing none had dared to consider. “And when they call me a monster, too?” Estrella asked, forcing her mother to raise her chin. Her snakes slithered around her head, seeming to respond to the word that the Gorgon woman had learned to hate. “Prove them right,” Medusa said with a shrug. “Sometimes a monster is exactly what the world needs to right the wrongs that have been committed for centuries. You have let your fear of what you could be hold you
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