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“There has not been a Frey of the Drakkar for centuries. In ancient times, every generation birthed a Frey. That was, until one Frey betrayed the elves, betrayed his line and betrayed his country. The elves retreated to their underground realm, not to be seen for centuries. That was, not until my birth to the House of Drakkar and the Vallees declarations that I was, indeed, the first Frey for seven hundred and fifty years.”
we are aristocrats. I am not only a nobleman, I am the nobleman, Finnie. And in this land or any other, a nobleman does what he wishes with whom he wishes, without compunction, without shame and most definitely without question.”
“So the Lunwynians don’t actually have a goddess of love, just passion and motherhood?” “For the ancients, when the dragons flew freely, they did,” Frey answered. He gave me another squeeze and whispered, “Her name was Sjofn.”
“Therefore, I must inform you that I also know that before you felt this emotion for him, and before he was aware of his depth of feeling for you, in order to bind you to this land and to him for the future of this country and for his own ends as he held extreme distaste for your twin, he ordered the elves of this world to bind you here for the rest of your days. At the same time he ordered that the other Sjofn be bound to your world . . . and your life . . . for the rest of hers.”
he’d cut me off from my world—completely and forever. And he cut me off because the elves had told him who I was. He cut me off because Sjofn was a lesbian and I was not. He cut me off because he could get from me for the rest of his life what he wouldn’t get from her. And he did all of this without asking me. He irrevocably changed my life and imprisoned me in this world, cutting me off from people I loved and the world I knew without asking and at a time when I had no intention of staying.
“This powder you took?” she asked. I nodded slowly and she went on, “It is quite powerful and nearly foolproof. However, you have not been taking it now for some time. He discovered it and switched it with a placebo with the intent to sire a child on you in order to safely deliver an heir to the throne of this nation.”
