Jack Frost's Bride
“My da is a leshy, and I have no mother at all. I am here to speak to Morena, the woman who abandoned me to nechist, to become a toy of Baba Yaga’s.”
Capitol Hill traffic spilled by outside, and I could see through the window Snegurochka’s son, my daughter’s guardian. He was smoking a cigarette, perhaps to calm his nerves. I supposed he wanted to give my daughter time alone with her negligent mother, to hear my answers in privacy.
“I did not abandon you,” I said, stepping out from the workshop where I was pressing fern flowers for their nectar. “I gave you the best possible upbringing with Buyan’s best king and a legacy you deserved. A chance to become the goddess Buyan longed for.”
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