‘That I looked up,’ Jacob said. ‘It’s from Danish mythology. A Valravn is a bewitched man transformed into a hero by a sacrifice.’ ‘Traditionally of a child’s heart,’ Shift said. He was watching Taryn with keen attention. Her ears started ringing. ‘A child’s heart?’ she repeated. Then, ‘A child’s life?’ She put her hands over her face. That was what had happened. Webber had died, and what would have been her and Alan’s child never reached her womb, but grew in her fallopian tube until the tube ruptured. A tiny curled creature, its heart only a shadow. And the knight, the ‘bewitched man’, was
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