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The Witch snickered. "As if anyone would care about your 'like'! Honestly, do you think you're picking a bride? How ridiculous… and utterly shameless!"
"Weren't you the one who brought up the topic in the first place…" Ashe mumbled, glancing down at Lys, still unconscious. "You heard her talking to me just now, right?"
"Mmhmm," the Witch nodded, crossing her legs on the bed once more. "She's a pitiful child, but terrifying at the same time."
"Pitiful, but also terrifying?"
"You noticed it too, didn't you? Her scheming is real, her amnesia is real, and yet so is her innocence. She deliberately plays the part of a cunning child, easy for adults to see through, probably as a form of self-preservation. Compared to children who are either too sharp or too dull, a clever little trickster like her is far more likely to gain an adult's favor."
Ashe recalled Lys's behavior in the underground hall. Iger and Harvey saw through her little schemes right then and there… Couldn't Annan have seen it ...
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