Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.

Determination could easily become obsession.

I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.

Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.