Sharskin’s mistake was to go to war with the world. Our ancestors realised the world was too big, and living with it was preferable to fighting it. But that does not mean we cannot change it, piece by piece. That does not mean we cannot try to understand it, or even question the ghosts and the voices of our ancestors. Our ancestors did not know everything. I have spent a long time in conversation with the House. Sometimes it speaks my voice back to me, at other times it uses Melory’s or Sharskin’s. I let it make the choice, or else it is faulty and does not know how it makes me the heart of an
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