The Inheritance Trilogy

by N.K. Jemisin

Of course I was enough, because he loved me. That was the whole point.

Then along came the Third, a she-creature named Enefa, who should have settled things because usually three of anything is better, more stable, than two. For a while this was the case. In fact, EXISTENCE became the universe, and the beings soon became a family, because it was Enefa’s nature to give meaning to anything she touched. I was the first of their many, many children.

“Maybe you should be happy,” he said. “When things are bad, change is good, right? Change means things will get better.”

Life is never only one thing.

The gathered folk stumbled back from them, though some quickly knelt or began weeping or calling out to them. No one shushed them, for hope had never been a sin.