Once Broken Faith

And their handmaiden, that sad-eyed, downcast Barrow Wight, looked openly terrified. She was staring at me, her eyes wide and her jaw slack. How had I not noticed her the first time? The answer followed the question without pause. I hadn`t noticed her because she was just a servant, and I`d been focusing on the purebloods as the important ones. I`d done to her exactly what so many of them had done to me. I had ignored her. I`d known I was losing my humanity, but that was the moment when I realized I was never going to get it back.