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"Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Show me the fairest of them all." The face disappeared in an instant, replaced with Lucia by the well I'd left the comb on.
I swallowed my nerves. I had to do this. There was no choice but to convince her I was trying to kill her. That way she'd become determined to defeat me.
"I just hope you catch on quickly enough," I whispered to the mirror.
Lucia looked towards me, though I knew that was nothing more than a coincidence.
"What have you got there?" Jonathan asked her. He looked better for spending some time in the woods, more like he'd help lead an army and less like the looks-obsessed fop who Gideon had taken the place of. I was glad of that.
"I don't know. It was waiting on the well for me." She pulled open the package, revealing the beautiful co
