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Through the Living Hope

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  1. She moaned and put.a hand to her stomach.
  2. She pulled her legs in closer to her body.
  3. … fine. I guess if Jakob comes back and this winter ends. What is Nikolas’s story? She spoke to her bard. Request that he be brought by your mat and play for him. She blinked in confusion for a moment, then turned to one of the others. “Can you bring him over here?"
  4. Bringing him back into involvement.
  5. “I’m fine-“ she lied, but it was clear that her voice was labored.
  6. Shielding this thought from her bard, she replied, And your endgame?
  7. She kept her gasping silent. She was skilled at quieting her pain.
  8. She crawled into an armchair and curled up into herself.
  9. “Who and how long ago?”
  10. “Theoretically. Though the process we used to rescue these two is.. less viable now that we’ve lost our people on the inside. Did you lose someone?”
  11. She shook her head and mouthed, “Me.”
  12. The girl looked like she wanted to say more, but words wouldn’t come.
  13. “In his palace,” said one of the other women. The first woman who had spoken put a protective arm around her. When they shifted, Wyvel recognized the first as the king’s daughter, and this one as one of the girls who had been taken from the square at an assembly.
  14. “We know it sounds ludicrous,” the woman said, “so there’s no blame in your being skeptical.” The man looked at her, his brow furrowed. “Was there something else?”
  15. The man opened his mouth, but one of the women spoke before he could. “There were certain people that he wanted to remember the past. It would torture them, knowing what had been as opposed to what he made. One of those was the king.”
  16. “Don’t attend one of his assemblies in the square for two weeks. Your head will hurt like hell near the end, but then you’ll remember.”
  17. “I admit, I still have to figure out how he did that. But he did.”
  18. “The man who calls himself our king made it seem that way. But he changed things.”
  19. “Your memory was rewritten to erase them.”
  20. “Khilemmi is the goddess of life, love, and marriage, and Araceli god of wind, night, and flowers.”
  21. “So you get your powers from Khilemmi and Araceli.”
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