Coda
LANA SANDOVAL made her public confession in exchange for leniency. Her sentence, originally incarceration for the remainder of her natural life, was reduced by order of the Wizengamot to 25 years and banishment.
When Lana walks free, having served her term, she and Rodolphus settle in a well-secured villa near Barcelona. Lana and Rod cleave together until his death--unfairly soon after their release.
Though she lives fifteen years in Spain, Lana never visits the institution where seven of her siblings are (or were, she has no idea) institutionalised for their squibbism. She is comforted to know that her own daughter, Charlotte, showed her magic at age three.
Lana finds that although her own parents remain distant, her European relations are more welcoming. Of particular joy is the chance to reconnect with her childhood-favourite cousin, Isobella. Missing Ibbie was responsible for the only inkling Lana ever had that life within the Protectorate's closed wards was constraining or unfair. Ibbie welcomes her widowed cousin into her home, a lovely gesture Lana repays by seducing her husband and luring him away to Tamariu on the Costa Brava, where both of them die whilst eating a poisoned paella.
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When Lana walks free, having served her term, she and Rodolphus settle in a well-secured villa near Barcelona. Lana and Rod cleave together until his death--unfairly soon after their release.
Though she lives fifteen years in Spain, Lana never visits the institution where seven of her siblings are (or were, she has no idea) institutionalised for their squibbism. She is comforted to know that her own daughter, Charlotte, showed her magic at age three.
Lana finds that although her own parents remain distant, her European relations are more welcoming. Of particular joy is the chance to reconnect with her childhood-favourite cousin, Isobella. Missing Ibbie was responsible for the only inkling Lana ever had that life within the Protectorate's closed wards was constraining or unfair. Ibbie welcomes her widowed cousin into her home, a lovely gesture Lana repays by seducing her husband and luring him away to Tamariu on the Costa Brava, where both of them die whilst eating a poisoned paella.
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