“You were the first female born to my line in Eherea. My first chance to break my sister’s curse on my own creation. A child of both royal and godly blood through your father’s line. The first female Crow born since the curse.” He pauses, scanning me with those eyes of sparkling light, and something like approval flickers in the brightness. “A child of loss through your father’s treason, of hardship through your mother’s choices, a child estranged from her own culture through the years aboard a pirate ship I steered across the waters. A child who fell in love with a human man when I needed her
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