[Her mouth twitches at the...compliment? It's a smile, albeit a slight and somewhat unreadable one.]
It's a bloodline that will die with me, so soon the Grace name, too, will be erased from history. You might be one of the last to hear about it.
[It isn't quite true. Theirs was a longstanding house, before decades of disease and her father's paranoid violence eroded what was left of the old blood. But maybe it's what she hopes for - unable to inherit anything, it's not like she minds if the Graces are simply erased.]
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It's a bloodline that will die with me, so soon the Grace name, too, will be erased from history. You might be one of the last to hear about it.
[It isn't quite true. Theirs was a longstanding house, before decades of disease and her father's paranoid violence eroded what was left of the old blood. But maybe it's what she hopes for - unable to inherit anything, it's not like she minds if the Graces are simply erased.]