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Let her go Don’t argue any longer Soon you’re going to steal her ic And she won’t be able to do anything to your father or to anyone else you love To anyone, ever again Let Elizabeth walk away tonight Next time--the tables will be turned

Nadia took one last look at the burns on Elizabeth’s shoulder before she ed up by the darkness I itself into her retinas to leave a shadow, like staring at the sun too long

Elizabeth ca for her, as her servant should; instead of kneeling and awaiting her bidding, however, he was reading a book by candlelight

"You let yourself be diverted by hulass in his direction

He didn’t flinch "If you didn’t want any distractions, maybe you shouldn’t have sheathed me in someone who has homework"

"Don’t let your hu more than a shell" Elizabeth went to one of the few pieces of furniture she still used, a chest of drawers so dilapidated that it leaned to one side and creaked as she pulled it open "A shell we have already cracked"

"I can’t help noticing that Nadia Caldani isn’t with you" Asa smirked at her Insolent beast

"She will be" Elizabeth’s fingers touched the thing she sought--a piece of human bone so old that it felt powdery in her hand "Have you watched them as I bid you? Or are you too preoccupied?"

"I have watched Their vulnerabilities are obvious, their schedules predictable I know the vehicles they travel in, the coer King, so on, so forth Which of them will you turn iving Nadia another chance?"

"I don’t want you to destroy them I want you to sow discontent" Elizabeth closed her fist tightly around the bone; ers "She resists because she believes herself supported Beloved Take that away, and she’ll be able to see reason"

"Tear her friends apart Understood" Asa grinned This was the kind of task deer felt warredients for her spell:

Death in ice

Hatred forever hidden

A child never born