“Kai. You’re a boy, right?” said Sela. “I can tell. I’m a girl.”
Sela was one of my favorite characters and was always the first child that Kai met in the desert. But in much earlier versions of the manuscript, the next child that the two of them met was a rambunctious and reckless boy named Geoff. Eventually, Geoff was "folded into" Sela's character, making her the reckless one. This change endeared her to me even more—and made it that much more difficult for me to watch her suffer the consequences of her own behavior!
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