THEY LOCKED YOU AWAY SO YOUR SISTER COULD MARRY TH…

her face into sharp gold and shadow. She looks less like your mother than like a woman guarding a crime.

“You little curse,” she whispers.

You step back.

“I did nothing.”

“That has always been the problem,” she says. “You do nothing, and still the world rearranges itself around you.”

You do not understand.

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