Melissa Grace

“That’s what happens when you come into contact with people who aren’t quite like you. You learn over time that the world isn’t broken. It’s just… got more pieces to it than you thought. They all fit together, just maybe not the way you pictured when you were young.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“I just want to warn you… I don’t want you to make the mistake of assuming you can rely on the Empire to support your community through this time. I’ve been around enough to know that you will be disappointed.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“It wasn’t a frightening face or even a particularly foreign one—pale skin, black eyes, and sharp features, much like Mamoru’s own. In a different uniform, the man could have been an upperclassman or a young teacher at Kumono Academy. People always said the Ranganese were demons of a different breed from the Kaigenese, but their blood seemed to be the same color, now that they lay still, letting it run together. They had all come out of the same ocean, hadn’t they? At the beginning of the world?”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“Misaki had long since let go of the idea that she could raise her children the way she wanted—or that they were even her children at all. Her sons were Matsudas first and foremost. Their sole purpose was to grow to be powerful warriors, like their father before them, and his father before him. They belonged to the Matsuda house, as she did.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen