She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get …

Megan Whalen Turner
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She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower. ✨ The Queen of Attolia. Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.
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