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“For we must lie, and pretend to act in good faith, and take the lives of men and women who are but the poorest sinners. We look like the citizens among whom we walk, but we’re not like them anymore. We’ve given up something of ourselves to gain much, and only now, as I come to the end of the road, do I feel the loss.”

”Punishment: Eyes sewn shut for a month, for we cannot covet what we cannot see.”

A shudder passes through me. The stitches are temporary, but the black thread against her white skin looks so barbaric—an accusation she cannot disguise. The fact that this woman’s trade—the needle and thread—was used against her makes it even worse.

“The more the other girls teased me, the more determined I became to find things to love about the way I looked—my eyes, I told myself, were the color of prized sipping chocolate; the hue of my hair matched the gleaming obsidian rock that lined the gorges. So what if I didn’t meet their standards of what was beautiful—I had something more, the ability to slip in and out of the shadows.”

I’m STILL looking for something that can replicate the high that the “Harry Potter” series gave me many years ago. The librarian recommended an immersive experience with “Sword of the Seven Sins.” Don’t fail me now, Debbie!