“How did you know?” I asked. “How did you see the other half of my stars before I did? Before they burned in the sky?” “I was never supposed to see such things,” Adria confessed. “But nor was I ever supposed to be immortal, was I? When I was crowned by Death and Fate, the very bones of divinity shifted, ever so slightly. I gained a portion of both matriarchs’ powers. I can foil death in my own way—not as great as your own, of course—and I can also catch a glimpse of what is to come, what is destined, as if I gaze into a murky pond. Orphia and Rowena do not realize it. Not yet, but soon they
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