“He makes laws and his subjects play with them. That is natural. But to break them—she was punished. But not killed, I think. Just banished from this world.” “For how long? A year? A month?” Hope, and disappointment. Ryoka saw the answer before Teriarch spoke it. “Forever? No, again, perhaps not. But a thousand years, ten thousand…it would not be a short amount of time. The fae do not think of time as we do. And their King would punish Ivolethe for her sins.” “For so long?” Ryoka felt tears in her eyes. Teriarch nodded. “The punishment for those who grow too attached to the world is never to
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