"Even if I were to choose someone to hate, it should be you, not her! Or in your eyes, am I just some country bumpkin from a remote place, a naive girl who doesn't understand the ways of the world? A single-celled organism with a one-track mind, unable to see something so plain and simple? Someone who can only obsess over how my fourth sister took my place, making me the perfect pawn for you to use?"
Cassandra Lynch's face was deathly pale, and she looked ready to collapse. "I... I didn't mean that. I didn't want this either. When it happened back then, I was just a newborn baby. I had no choice in the matter. If I could, I wouldn't want to take someone else's place, to steal someone else's life, but what could I do? Knowing the truth is painful for me too, but it truly wasn't my intention."
