Blue Eye
- When Esmé wakes up her mother, Mab, and tells her about the blue eye, she doesn't get any sort of maternal reassurance.
- Instead, Mab starts screaming in an unfamiliar language and screams at the "beast bastards" to get out of Esmé. It's not a very comforting reaction.
- Esmé starts crying out of fright, which Mab snaps out of it, but she still tells her daughter to cover up the eye because "they" might be using it. How ominous.
- Mab asks her if anything strange has happened to her recently, and Esmé retorts that their whole life is strange.
- And it's true—they don't live like a normal family. They don't have friends, family, or jobs. Every once in a while some diamonds arrive in an envelope and they sell them for money.
- Before she got her period and started becoming a woman, Esmé always thought that their life was beautiful and perfect. But now she wants more.
- She demands to know why they live like such freaks, but Mab changes the subject and asks if she's heard any wolves.
- Esmé tells her that she heard some wolves just this morning. This makes Mab even more agitated, and she says that the creatures that raised her have found them. She tells Esmé that they're empty and vicious—and that she stole Esmé from them.
- Fourteen years ago, she escaped from her previous life with Esmé inside of her, but now the Druj have found them.
- Mab tells her to go get a pair of scissors. Then she cuts off their long red hair, fashions a makeshift eye patch for Esmé, and they sneak off into the night like thieves.