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“Why me?” “Because I am a horrible man,” I answered, tucking a strand of loose grey hair behind her ear, “who loves lovely things.”

“You’re Willow Duncan now, Duchess of Darkheim. You don’t have to make yourself look small when you’re not, squeeze so tightly into their moulds, breaking and cracking and sawing through everything in your body and mind to build yourself exactly how you think they can bear to see you. And you don’t have to endure shit anymore. You hear me?”