“On your other world, you fought a battle,” Sibyl said, sinking down onto a fat tree stump. She set her water bottle down and sat slumped, her arms around her knees. She looked so small that way, the bones of her spine sticking out even through her cardigan. “It clings to you still.” Sibyl was looking down at Sloane’s scarred right hand. Sloane resisted the urge to cover it up. “That was not your battle,” Sibyl said. “Not really.” Sloane’s instinct was to argue. It had been her battle; of course it had. The Dark One had taken her brother from her. That she would fight him had been an
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