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I knew her court would end up punished for their literacy but not like this. The reward for noble causes is always death. Her hand-dealing the blow-on the sword makes it all the more painful.

“He had always wanted a sister, but Mother said that even if the Ancestors gave him one, they wouldn’t be able to keep her. Mother said girls were like water, for helping their brothers grow into flowers.”