I made no protest when she drew two points on my collarbone with her sweetened blood. Two points that she connected, as if they were stars, gleaming in gold. Only two other divines could take their stars and give them to another—Orphia and Rowena. My breath caught when I realized who Adria truly was. What she had become amongst us. Death and Fate had not just created a goddess of peace. They had made another matriarch. If the under realm belonged to Orphia and the Skyward heavens to Rowena, then Adria was the matriarch of the mortal kingdom. There had always been three realms in our world; we
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