![]() She liked to tell Amhran how she knew from the time she was a child, in the days before the war, that someday she would come to marry a man with golden eyes and loving hands. Even before Amhran was conceived, Fara had predicted that she would give birth to a small, wily, strong-willed daughter. When she spoke, it was with the certainty of the making at the heart of the world. She was one of the most powerful zowa in Novyi Zem, reaching out to sense the building blocks of the small science with her intuition rather than her sight, often blurring the line between the orders in a way few had ever done before. You have been born looking over your shoulders for an enemy that will never appear."Īnd Amhran knew it was true, because her mother was never wrong.įara Magali had been born with withered moons where her eyes should have been. We saw horrors, yes, but it is your generation I pity the most. You are caught between war and peace, every muscle in your body tensed always to fight, with nowhere for that fight to go. ![]() You will be the ones to inherit these, not quite understanding where they come from, searching through your past and future to find an answer to the emptiness in your parents' eyes. ![]() "My generation were the fighters, the ones to earn scars and haunted looks. ![]() "Children born of war will always wander," Amhran's mother had told her once. ![]()
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