I heard the voice leave me before I even realised I was speaking. “I will kill you for this. Only for this.” Even the Carlin seemed surprised I would dare speak to her this way. “I want you to know exactly why I am killing you when I do it,” I told her, my voice quiet—but I knew she could hear me. And for a split second, she looked uneasy. “And it won’t be because of what you did to me. Or what you tried to do to the seelie. I’ll kill your eldest son for what he did to my parents, but when I kill you, it will be only because of this. It will be only for him.”
