Ashe Pov
Never in my life had I ever believed one day someone would love me. ‘Nothing,’ she’d call me. ‘You’re nothing,’ she’d scream at me. I always believed I was nothing, I deserved nothing, I surmounted to nothing. Just a tool, to get the magic, so Niamh could rule all of the realm, destroy the species, and be the only ones left. I was to be a tool, and I never thought someday that someone would love me, for me. That I’d be important to someone, that they’d accept me for who I am, despite everything. I craved it, dreamed of it, but to actually think that it would happen to me? I never thought it would happen. The earliest memory I have is in the cage, small, scared, defenseless. For the longest time, I thought all children lived in cages, until I met my sister for the first time. That
