The Mage's Heart
I had not wanted to ask the question, uncertain if knowing, or not, would be worse, but she was waiting for it to be asked.
“Your mother had,” she smiled softly, “the gift of a generous heart, like you, Siorin. She could not see someone in need, without doing all she could do to assuage it. Your father washed up in the isles where the sirens live, and she sheltered him, knowing that her people would kill him if they were to discover him. I don’t know what she thought would come of it, other than tragedy,” she stroked her hand through my hair. “Love blinds us sometimes to what lies before us.
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