'Show them?'
All her life a thin thread had hung her. From the moment she drew her first breath, her mamma despised her because of her blood. Her brothers viewed her as a pest and couldn't wait to get rid of her.
She never asked to be what she is, an imperfect creation of Alda and Almada, the Allfather and Allmother of creations.
Every day she prayed for their grace, but crying out to them didn't change anything. Her fate had already been set in stone, and her gift? It was a curse that led her straight to this moment.
"You want something more."
She shifted her gaze back at him, the man suddenly becoming the wheel behind her fate.
"What could I possibly desire from this world?"
"Not freedom," he replied.
She lifted her chin and straightened her posture. "You claim you know me so well, but you don't."
"I do… I know you more than you know yourself."