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Sophia sat on her throne ad sat directly in front of her dais The warhostlike in appearance Sophia grinned It was the effects of the girl&039;s blood She knew it That shi likeness was a hollow display of her beauty The reflection was fading and soon, with enough blood, would disappear entirely Itwould return to the way it was "Just like old tiinald rolled his eyes He sat slouched in his chair, next to her, head leaning sideways on his hand "Exactly like old times You sat in front of theto see"

Sophia&039;s eyes cut to her brother Why she allowed hient described her actions, but Sophia knehy she called hi out the worst in her, and she&039;d need that soon Very soon

"Re, like she was bored

"So you can rub htened in his chair "Power isn&039;t much fun without someone to flaunt in front of" Bitterness filled hishis vapid sister fading frolass, it would have been his reflection that was nearly gone Reggie tried to hide his jealousy, but he couldn&039;t completely mask it - which hy Sophia kept hirinned "Flaunting is the perfect reason to spare your insignificant life" After gazing at the glass for solet fell over her shoulder She touched it gently, twisting it between her fingers "Reggie, dear What did we do before?"

He glanced up at her not following herforward slightly and feigning interest

Sophia sighed Why did he pretend to be a fool? She kneas far froe to roll her eyes "Before, ere powerful and had no reflection at allhow did we dress? How did we knoe looked like? It was so long ago"

It was long ago, but Reginald recognized this as another snub from his sister She remembered "Servants Slaves Tell them to make you pretty If they fail, kill thes and sat forward in his chair "You act like it was so long ago that you can&039;t reme," she said, still prie in the mirror

"Come now, sister Good blood should draw memories back, not exile them completely" When Sophia didn&039;t answer he looked over at her She continued to fuss with the curl, trying to drape it over her shoulder with the other cascading dark locks

Reggie wondered if she really couldn&039;t remember, if it wasn&039;t an act As he watched his sister primp and fuss, he wondered why Was there a reason she hadn&039;t obtained her for rong with her, otherwise his sister would have devoured rab pohile it&039;s within their grasp don&039;t live to see the sunrise, and yet, Sophia was sitting like she had all the time in the world There was only one explanation for it in his rin spread across Reggie&039;s lips, slowly stretching from one corner of his mouth to the other He didn&039;t realize it, but now that he saw, he didn&039;t kno he missed it "Tell me, how is her blood? Perhaps it&039;s not as pure as we thought? I mean, look at the mirror Your face is still there when you should be reflectionless by now"

Sophia was always easy to goad She stopped and turned toward his "Be careful, brother You do not want to fight ht with you, either," Reginald said Sophia&039;s eyes bore into him If she could make hi out that your prized-possession seems to be rather lackluster," he pressed his hand to his chest, "which is dreadfully e with how she was flaunted at the All Hallow&039;s Eve party Every Regent saw and heard you brag about her, the dirty wild thing" He shivered as he thought about it Kahli was disgusting, dripping with filth and savage beyond coirl

Sophia&039;s gaze narrowed, her hands tightening their grip on the dais "She is what I thought she was What you told me she was - wild - pure Do you think we should just tap her and drink goblets of her blood? Are you a fool? Do you kno potent pure blood is? What it does co?" The only reason she offered this inforht, that pure blood was hers and not his That the blood was restoring her forinald hadn&039;t realized rong with the girl He figured that young Willia ridiculous But this, this was much better "How dreadful," he said with pity in his voice "To have so so easily and yet, not be able to take that power It ue and shook his head, barely hiding the satisfied s across his lips "I had no idea"

"You never have any idea," she snapped Motioning for her servant, Sophia said to her, "Fetch the wild girl for a tasting Promptly" After the servant left, Sophia turned toward her brother with a wicked gleainald I&039;ll let you taste a drop and you can see how strong a stomach is needed to drink fro expression fell fro it It&039;s aable to inald was excited and apprehensive Leaning back, he slouched in his chair trying to hide it "What&039;s the worst that it could do?"

Sophia gave a wolfish grin, "Wait and see for yourself" When the servant reentered without Will, Sophia was irritated "Well?" Sophia snapped

The servant didn&039;t look her in the eye Instead she bowed her head and stared at the floor "Neither of them is to be found I&039;ve looked and asked The last person to see the girl was the King"

Sophia rose slowly, utterly cale just exploded in her system Every inch of Sophia&039;s body would twitch any second She would kill without a second thought, without reason

Reginald sat very still, ht Sophia stepped toward the treinald could blink, a severed head rolled across the floor No one moved No one breathed The Queen crossed the roo anyone within reach A bloody path trailed in her wake Before he was reinald slipped fro took asn&039;t his, then Reginald was not safe He cursed hih his sister didn&039;t suspect it, Reginald had nefarious reasons for being there, all of which stemmed back to Kahli