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“‘I don’t want you to fix it,’ Alabaster says. ‘It was collateral damage, but Yumenes got what it deserved. No, what I want you to do, my Damaya, my Syenite, my Essun, is make it worse.’”

“I introduced myself to her eventually, finally, ten years later, as she left Tirimo. It’s not the way we usually do these things, of course; it is not the relationship with her kind that we normally seek. But she is—was—special. You were, are, special.
I told her that I was called Hoa. It is as good a name as any.
This is how it began. Listen. Learn. This is how the world changed.”

“After a moment, Hoa sighs. ‘He said, if you wouldn’t come, to tell you that you owe him. For Corundum.’
You freeze. ‘Alabaster,’ you whisper.
‘Yes,’ says Hoa, brightening. ‘That’s his name.’ And then he frowns more, thoughtfully this time. ‘He’s dying.’”

“‘I didn’t expect to live through a Season,’ he says softly. ‘I mean, I’ve heard the lore all my life, same as everyone else… but I always figured it would never happen to me.’
Everyone thinks that. You certainly weren’t expecting to have to deal with the end of the world on top of everything else.”

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