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her response.
Yet it was Glennis who snarled, in a voice
Manon had not yet heard, “What is it that you
want?”
Manon’s grandmother smiled, revealing
rust-flecked iron teeth. The true sign of her
age. “You made a grave error, Manon Kin-
Slayer, when you sought to turn our forces
against us. When you sowed such lies
amongst our sentinels regarding our plans—
my plans.”
Manon kept her chin high. “I spoke only
truth. And it must have frightened you enough
that you gathered these two to hunt me down
and prove your innocence in scheming against
them.”
The other two Matrons didn’t so much as
blink. Her grandmother’s claws had to have
sunk deep, then. Or they simply did not care.
“We came,” Cresseida seethed, the