Vaduin had those traces, too. So did Cass. The whole world did, a trillion trillion memories of breaks and mends, and an infinity more, glittering and gleaming in anticipation. It was change, all of it, whether good or bad. A breaker could tear open every wound, but she could also cut gems and break spears. I didn't have to be a force of destruction, caught up in the pain of the past. I could learn how to change things for the better. I'd make mistakes. Of course I would. But when I did, I knew a healer and an amalgam mage. Maybe they could help me put the world back together, and I could try
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