“Year by year,” Verin continued, “we find fewer and fewer girls who can be taught to channel. Sheriam believes we may have spent the last three thousand years culling the ability out of humankind by gentling every man who can channel we find. The proof of it, she says, is how very few men we do find. Why, even a hundred years ago the records say there were two or three a year, and five hundred years—” Alanna harrumphed. “What else can we do, Verin? Let them go insane? Follow the Whites’ mad plan?” “I think not,” Verin replied calmly. “Even if we could find women willing to bear children by
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