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Perry hated himself.He’d snapped at her, and now he wanted to comfort her, to protect her from whatever had already happened.“You don’t have to do this.”He moved closer to Vori.
She shook her head.“I won’t run again.Not this time.Tell me.”
His father set the cup on the table.“All right then.Your mother, she stayed to save you, Kradnovtl’s promised queen.Your mother died for her choice.The mad king followed her that night instead of you.He chased her to a cliff above a river and slashed her with iron blades until she threw herself over the edge.They never found her body.”
Vori covered her mouth with her hand, a whimper escaping between her fingers.
No.It didn’t make sense.Perry couldn’t accept it,wouldn’taccept it.“Why didn’t your mom follow you through the goblin glass?”
“Because her mother wasn’t a goblin royal.”His father spoke in his detached professor voice as if this was all something he’d studied, not her life.“The queen consort couldn’t open the portal herself.”
Vori’s throat worked as if she’d swallowed the goblin glass he’d been thinking of.Shattered into a thousand shards.“She would’ve had only minutes, maybe seconds to follow me.She was trapped.”Her words tumbled out in a single breath, like the oxygen had been sucked into a vortex by one of these magical books.“I left her there.She’s dead because of me.”
