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“I suppose once we get labelled something, we become it one way or another,”
“I think you are a woman of power and intuition, Your Majesty.” “Does that make me a witch?” “Only if it gets in a man’s way.”
“You were undone. It was like watching a caged animal free itself. It was like witnessing a lion from my homelands escaping from her cage, and I witnessed you as everything you were meant to be. And I feared you. And I couldn’t look away. Because it was just — power — ricocheting of the trees, a bright light, burning off old bindings.”
“I thought I had lost everything,” I said. My voice was clear. “I thought I was being stripped of everything that made me.” I wiped my face with the back of my hand, inexplicable trembling in my fingers. “But I had just been deprived of my masks: I had been left with only myself.”
