I am the Teller of Small Fortunes. She thought of the ship that had brought her from Shinara to Eshtera, and the many roads that had taken her far from Margrave and back again. She thought of her mother, and of her friends: of Mash’s gruff kindness, of Silt’s cheeky smile. Kina’s arms around her at the campfire. She thought, too, of the others that she had met along the way—Esther; the witch in Shellport; the Shinn shopkeeper in Craghorn. Strangers who had flitted in and out of her life only briefly, but in doing so had shaped the course of her journey. As she had theirs. I am Tao, she
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