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We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.
“Why does he want to kill me?” “Because you’re a failure,” Aro said, smirking. “You were supposed to be a boy.”
Oh, how our traditions limit and outcast those of us who aren’t normal.
To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you . . . and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.
Those old beliefs about the worth and fate of men and women, that was the only thing that I didn’t like about Mwita. Who was he to think he was entitled to be the center of things just because he was male?
