Wren glanced sidelong at her sister, feeling a strange twisting in her gut. In all her life, Banba had never uttered a word to her about the existence of Oonagh Starcrest. Until this very moment, Wren had believed that Glenna was the only living witch who even knew of the lost twin. ‘What did Banba tell you?’ she asked her sister. ‘Nothing. It’s as if she was afraid to say anything at all.’ Rose frowned at the portrait. ‘I don’t understand. Why are there two crowns?’ Wren recalled the seer’s words to her in this very tower last night, the story she had unravelled in the darkness as she told
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