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“…I-I have.”  She admitted after a moment, sighing quietly as she relaxed.  "Mama…why?“  She asked, looking up from the floor at her mother nervously.  She wanted to know why she’d been hidden away for so long, forced into isolation for nearly her entire life.

"I can’t pretend to know what has made you father keep the gates closed this long,” the Queen murmured, keeping up the gentle rub. “But it was because of that vision we were shown, when that crowd attacked. He’s frightened, love, but in his fear, he has done you no favours. And I did try to fight back against him, but he doesn’t listen to me,”