jade and lapis lazuli in his thickcurling beard, the huge rings of star sapphire and ruby and lynx-eye on his fingers. Gyrgon had no mothers—at least none they could remember. You are too much of a threat to us. Or was she? She stared at Nith Settt for a long time, thinking.
Bronnn Pallln was overweight. Maybe there were already drowning, water filling her lungs, black tide seeping the life out of them. These children, the sad consequence of Kundalan females beingraped by battle-blooded Khagggun, were in any case mistakes. There was a moment's familiar disconnect, then all at once, she was back on Kundala, in her wet and shivering body, crouched against the foundation stones of the abbey, sobbinginconsolably.
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