Capítulo 223: Chapter 223 - Play Dress-Up

"I'm scared, Mother, I'm scared. Sufi did not live after they took her child."

Taria sobbed, her mother pulling her close.

They were both kneeling on the floor now, her mother's eyes red with unshed tears.

This was her only living child. It hurt that she couldn't protect her.

"You are not your sister."

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"How are we different? Father did this to her too."

"You will not die, Taria."

"And if I survive, I'll be a Tower woman. Locked away forever for dishonoring my womanhood and bringing shame to my family, flogged day and night for a crime I didn't commit."

There was a pause.

"I don't want to be Tower Woman," she said in a small, weak voice.

"For every day of my life, till I die, I will come and see you."

Taria pulled away from her mother roughly, standing on her feet.