She said she cared nothing for gold and silver, yet nothing but the finest incense would do.She said she never courted the great houses, yet she was at their banquets constantly.Her compassion, her kindness, all of it was hollow. She could not let go of fame, wealth, or power.Lilith was stunned, but a moment later she recovered her usual composure. "Rowena, your magic was unstable when you were small, and you only ever got so much of the ration you needed to practice. But you would rather faint in the middle of practice than let that lame fox go hungry, and you fed her every bit of it. And now look at you."That was not how it happened at all. "You were being generous with someone else's food. I was just the poor wretch who went hungry for three days because a wild fox stole my rations."The year I turned eight, the servants could not be bothered to carry my daily ration up, and simply dumped it at the foot of the attic stairs.A wild fox out of the hills stole it and ate it all, an
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