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The paper bird, voiceless and useless now, falls from her hand, and she turns away from the Xalash-man. She no longer cares that her second face is exposed, and she stumbles to another stump and curls against its roots, waiting for the world to take everything else she has left.
Half-Spent Was the Night by Gretchen Tessmer. On the Way Home by Laine Perez. BCS 306: Half-Spent Was the Night by Gretchen Tessmer.
“All right,” May said and moved aside so that George could herd the bot through the door. The bot swept into the front room, stopping to examine each object in her path. George watched her quick movements and heard her cheerful noises and was pleased.
There’s trust between them that few others can claim. But it’s a trust that Jonah feels he failed earlier in the day, through the simple act of not answering her question about Leah and all those other questions hiding behind it: Will this winter ever end? Will my brother’s shadow follow us always? Is my blood tainted? Is our daughter’s?
They were expectant, for she was the Storm's daughter and it fell to her to find a suitable replacement. And when she looked down at her own children, when she saw the worry in her son's roving stare and the concern in the way her daughter counted the buttons on her dress over and over, she knew she'd search the entirety of the land for someone, anyone, strong enough.