"I ran off when I was sixteen because my father... well, he saw my mother in me. Blamed me for her being dead and he weren't a nice man when he'd get in his cups. He was angry with my mother for leaving, for dying. Angry with me for daring to look so much like her. I had to leave my brothers behind, but by then the oldest boys were getting bigger and stronger, Luke was fourteen and already taller than our father, so I knew he'd not hit 'em the way he did me."
She shrugs and smiles a little. "So I left. Just me and Garrick, my dog." And how much her life has changed since then.
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"I ran off when I was sixteen because my father... well, he saw my mother in me. Blamed me for her being dead and he weren't a nice man when he'd get in his cups. He was angry with my mother for leaving, for dying. Angry with me for daring to look so much like her. I had to leave my brothers behind, but by then the oldest boys were getting bigger and stronger, Luke was fourteen and already taller than our father, so I knew he'd not hit 'em the way he did me."
She shrugs and smiles a little. "So I left. Just me and Garrick, my dog." And how much her life has changed since then.