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“I’ away

“No, I’m sorry”

“For what?”

“For whatever I did, to upset you”

“Oh, oh, no You didn’t upset me Quite the opposite, you freed me!”

“From what?”

“Prejudice I never had any idea about any of it We were taught that anyone not like us was a heathen and therefore our ene Jews and Mormons Mom tried to point out that Jesus was a Jew Dad called her a filthy liar and broke her jaw”

“Your dad sounds like a real char with sarcasm

“You don’t know the half of it”

“He gave you that?”

I followed his arm to the cross Unconsciously, I covered it with my hand Embarrassed by how it looked

“Yes, I deserved it”

“No I don’t care what you did No one deserves to be mutilated like that Especially not a kid”

“How did you knoas a kid”

“I started with your current age and subtracted the level of healing My baby sister is fifteen”

“Do you have anything?” I asked

“Not like that Allwith all my senses, for both pleasure and pain”

“That’s what upsets you isn’t it? Not the fact of the brand but because I was so young and didn’t and couldn’t consent to it I-I was forced”

“Daive him a piece of my mind I have a lot to spare”

The giggle ildly inappropriate but there was still nothing I could do about it It wasn’t the threat against my daddy that tickled me so ustus would actually hurt him Aside from his stated principles, he just didn’t seeustus just didn’t have the look

“I could use a drink, how about you?”

“I-I don’t know I don’t really drink Except communion wine”

“Apparently,” Augustus h the kitchen

“I think there’s soe”

“Bingo,” Augustus said, co up with two bottles of soft apple cider