“But now the question I must ask is if you are willing to pay the cost of my disguise.” “Tell me the cost, then.” She poured a glass of wine. “I will take half of your heart and turn it into stone. It will divide you, and you will turn colder. Because half of who you once were will be no more, you will need to surrender half of something you love to hold the spell. Your art or your magic, most likely, since those are two things that have always been with you, growing alongside you year by year.” She took a sip of her wine, but her gaze never left mine. “So what will you choose to give up,
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