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My father told me that when he was around Khoush merchants when they came to our city to buy astrolabes, he tried to make himself as small as possible. “It is either that or I will start a war with them that I will finish,” he said.
I’d read that Meduse could not move through walls, but even I knew that just because information was in a book didn’t make it true.
I shut my eyes and prayed to the Seven. I wanted to ask, “Why did you let this happen?” but that was blasphemy. You never ask why. It was not a question for you to ask.
They say that when faced with a fight you cannot win, you can never predict what you will do next. But I’d always known I’d fight until I was killed.
“If your chief knows my people, then he will have told you that taking it from me is like taking my soul,” I said, my voice cracking.
“I wish I could just kill you.” I paused. “Like my mother always says, ‘we all wish for many things,’”
His anger was rightful, but all that he said was from what he didn’t truly know.
My father said that my curiosity was the last obstacle I had to overcome to be a true master harmonizer. If there was one thing my father and I disagreed on, it was that; I believed I could only be great if I were curious enough to seek greatness.
