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The Slithering Shadows
Correen was the only one who wasn’t afraid of him. She didn’t cow in his presence, even when being dressed down before her peers, which happened often enough that she should hate him. Her eyes never lowered when delivering news she expected to enrage him, even when it did, even when his reaction was enough to drive regret.
For that, Eoghan preferred her.
But she was not the mastermind Assyria had been. Assyria loathed him, but she’d been a force at court, always knowing precisely what needed done and seeing it through with unfeminine expediency. Their father once jested that she was clearly intended to have been born a male, but at the last minute her c**k forgot to drop and the matter was concluded another way. Eoghan didn’t find this as funny as Khain had, b
