I was crossborn after all – birthed too early under the wrong sign. My mother had been waterborn and I had been planned for a Pisces birth, but the stars had intervened, bringing me to the world early and marking me as a child of Aquarius instead. It was why I had been sent to war at fourteen, why I had been tested and trialled more than any other I knew – though of course my sisters in arms had been placed in a similar position, but their shame was the work of their airborn parents – Dalia’s father having failed in a mission which cost the Skyforgers a battle and Moraine’s mother shaming her
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