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Inkeri told him about her past, the words so incomprehensibly heavy that Atreus didn’t really process them at first. She insisted she would overcome her fears in order to visit him, though he barely registered this or the answer to his question about foreign words. He was more than a little hung up on “I should not have been born” and “I would often be kept in caves and beaten.”

W…what? he whispered, lips barely moving.

He thought now was a good time to reach out and comfort her in whatever way he could. But Atreus was frozen in place by the weight suddenly placed on his young shoulders. He was, in a word, dismayed.