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“That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift.”
“I knew I had to keep eating.”
“Mother issued one of her infrequent commands: never to tell anyone about my curse. But I wouldn’t have anyway. I had learned caution.”
Ella learns as a young girl that selfish and cruel people can exploit her curse. The secret of the curse also functions as a plot device. She can’t tell Char about the curse and that she fears marrying him will allow people to hurt him through her. Secrecy leads him to think she doesn’t want to be with him.