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She is a woman who understands the value of words, especially the ones they don’t want you to say.
“The Constitution? What, exactly, do you think the Constitution is? A magic spell? A dragon, perhaps, that will swoop down to defend you in your most desperate hour?� Cleo straightens in her seat. Juniper doesn’t think she’s ever seen a face so full of scorn. “I assure you it has only ever been a piece of paper, and it has only ever applied to a very few persons.�
Bella thinks about the hands that carved the tunnels like veins beneath the city, the bodies laboring unseen and unfree; she thinks of the ways people make for themselves when there are none, the impossible things they render possible.
“Yet he’s still scared. What is he afraid of?� “Same thing every powerful man is afraid of.� The Crone shrugs. “The day the truth comes out.�
