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“One more time,”
Oh no..
Vi had wanted magic. Begged for it. She’d anticipated flames like her uncle’s, like those of her forefathers. She’d never expected to see the future.
so that we could
*could. this needs a bit more editing
Vi gave him one last, long look, trying to uncover whatever secrets he was hiding. But the man was a closed book. It was a good thing books of all kinds were Vi’s specialty.
“Everywhere is paradise, just a different kind.”
Crown princesses did not have the luxury of clinging to past emotional distresses.
if
should be removed.
“You are a special case,”
Maybe because Vi (of CC, a Child of Yargen ?) healed Vhalla when she was pregnant?
“I am too Northern to be Southern. I am too Southern to be Northern. Eastern to be Western. Western to be Eastern. I belong nowhere, and to no one, and it’s all because of some stupid magic and the words of one person—whose name you don’t even know.”
“You belong nowhere, because you belong to the goddess herself. You are her chosen child, more than even I or Ellene, as you were hand-picked outside her lineage.”
Great, another Chosen One. *sigh*
“As I said, and as you already know, because this knowledge is sacred.
Why??
why have I never seen it? Why have I never heard of it before?”
The question should be, why was it kept a secret to everyone in the first place? Why keep your people ignorant of the world?
“Only those of royal blood, and the lords or ladies that oversee each of the Empire’s parts, know this truth.
That is just ridiculous
“Why is this not taught to everyone? Why isn’t it common knowledge?”
Finally, she's asking the right questions!
All her life she’d been complicit in the greatest lie of them all without even knowing it.
Passing judgment that would affect people she’d never met, but declaring her actions were for their best interest. If that wasn’t the burden of royalty, Vi didn’t know what was. It’s what her parents had done with her, wasn’t it? Made a decision that impacted Vi’s whole life before she was even born and declaring it in her best interest.
his
*his
There was only one way
There was only *one* way
