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Hannah was only thirteen but she looked twenty-five. Pearl was getting more and more hysterical as her daughter's apparent age rapidly approached her own. Hannah turned thirty, but actually fourteen. She was truly a child trapped in a body far too mature. Now, around the time Hannah appeared to be thirty-two, Pearl began trying to contact Belboz to stop her aging again. Maybe they could toggle, or something? She could just be thirty-two for a couple decades, and then age too fast for a few more years, and the hexes could just take turns? At least, that was her hope. Belboz finally answered her desperate messages on Hannah's fifteenth birthday. And he was very cross. "I gave the girl a gift," he said, voice dangerously low, "and you rejected it. I do not forget a slight such as that. And anyway, her aging can't be stopped, not anymore. What, did you think you could just go back and forth, back and forth?" "Surely you can do something," Pearl cried. "Please, I'm sorry I insulted you, but I will do anything." Belboz considered it. It was true that the knight's punishment was significantly lessened with her lifespan reduced so much. But was it worth it? Finally he said,
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