[A girl like you, she says, like Mae sits in a whole category. She could tell her - this pretty girl with a gift for magic and old eyes. She could lay her cards on the table.]
I lead one. [In the end, it's easy to say it. It comes out dry and brief, with a shrug. No big deal, she lead one. When there was that power vacuum, when her brother nearly died - and others nearly died - Mae's strategy, Mae's quick thinking got them out of trouble. Simultaneously, it got her in control of the Goblin Market back home, the biggest one. Under her command, they'd stopped travelling but settled near London instead, to allow the younger kids to actually attend school and try their hands at something else. Under her command, the Market was no longer at war with the covens of witches, either.
Out of her command, now, who knows. But that had been the deal - seven years and no longer. She's served it for seven years, and here she is now, trying to serve herself.]
But thanks, I haven't been made to feel seventeen again with a barbed comment in a very long time. [Here a little chuckle.] Witches. What a gift.
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I lead one. [In the end, it's easy to say it. It comes out dry and brief, with a shrug. No big deal, she lead one. When there was that power vacuum, when her brother nearly died - and others nearly died - Mae's strategy, Mae's quick thinking got them out of trouble. Simultaneously, it got her in control of the Goblin Market back home, the biggest one. Under her command, they'd stopped travelling but settled near London instead, to allow the younger kids to actually attend school and try their hands at something else. Under her command, the Market was no longer at war with the covens of witches, either.
Out of her command, now, who knows. But that had been the deal - seven years and no longer. She's served it for seven years, and here she is now, trying to serve herself.]
But thanks, I haven't been made to feel seventeen again with a barbed comment in a very long time. [Here a little chuckle.] Witches. What a gift.