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The False Heir
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2026-07-16 07:20:38Haydee
Stolen blood. Mine.
The words landed in the shrine, and everything I thought I understood rearranged itself around them.
Tara-Lee's pregnancy. The bond-sickness that had dropped me in the training yard. The fevers that took me every winter and no other servant. The bruises in the crook of my arm. Eighteen years of waking dizzy and gray, of a cup drawn from me in the dark while I slept. They had not been taking my blood only to keep me weak
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