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- I know a lot of girls who’d give a lot to be as powerful as you.
- That’s because they’ve never lived with it,’ Anne said. ‘I know the ones you’re talking about. Those apprentices all say how awesome it would be to be as strong as me, and they’re all so bright-eyed. They think it’s like … like some pretty necklace. Something they can put on, and everyone will cheer them and clap for them, until they take it off. They don’t understand that you can’t take it off. Once people know what you are, what you can do, then when they look at you, that’s what they see. They don’t see you as a girl. They don’t even really see you as a person.’
- That’s because they’ve never lived with it,’ Anne said. ‘I know the ones you’re talking about. Those apprentices all say how awesome it would be to be as strong as me, and they’re all so bright-eyed. They think it’s like … like some pretty necklace. Something they can put on, and everyone will cheer them and clap for them, until they take it off. They don’t understand that you can’t take it off. Once people know what you are, what you can do, then when they look at you, that’s what they see. They don’t see you as a girl. They don’t even really see you as a person.’
