"Only, it was a trick. She’d been tricked. The grandmother. She too would perish. But not her grandchild. The baby would be spared, whisked away."

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"Or, wait: did I actually miss their bickering? Had my prior contempt succumbed to benign amusement?"

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"For, I realized I must possess at least some small quotient of worth after all, or else my demise would hardly have been necessary."

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