Wearing my Sister's name
and Wren decided, on the spot, that she did not want to be a poor girl.
“I am here because for a month I have stood among you under a borrowed name, and you have been kind to me, and I cannot let you be kind to someone who doesn’t exist.” She turned her head. “And I am here for my sister. She was raised to be the one they chose, and they used her too. Whatever she did, she did because she was taught that love is something you win. I don’t hate her.”
On the stage, Sera’s chin trembled. For the first time in her life, Wren thought, her sister looked exactly like what she was: someone who had been waiting a very long time to be told she could put something down.