I’ve forgotten how … really, I’ve never been alone. Aminata helped me in school. And then there was Muire Lo, and Tain Hu, and you. And Lyxaxu, and Unuxekome, and Pinjagata … Xate Olake saved my life when Lyxaxu came to kill me. You saved my life when Oathsfire ambushed us. I just let myself think, somehow, that I’d done it all myself, that I was…” “That you were a solitary savant, a bright star in the dark?” “Yeah.”
