Tears poured along her cheeks as she appeared in the house of a mortal family who’d had twins the same age as us. She woke the people who she had selected to raise us, and fear prickled along my spine as she Coerced them not to notice any difference in their babies. She told them to love and protect us and raise us to be strong in spirit and mind. She sobbed as she left us there, taking their children in our place as she returned to the Palace of Souls. I almost snatched my hand away from the glass. I couldn’t understand how she could be so callous as to trade our lives for those of two
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