The Second Blind Son (The Chronicles of Saylok #2)

by Amy Harmon

“People are afraid. Fear brings out the ugliness. It is easy to be kind and good when it costs us nothing. It is not so easy when it can cost you your life. So people are not kind, and often they are not good. And here . . . you are rarer than gold.”

“Don’t fear your voice, Liis of Leok,” Ivo insisted, emphasizing the hard ending of Leok. “There will come a time when you will need it, and if you do not use it, if you bury it inside you, it will grow weak and small. There is power in your songs.”

She’d found most thoughts were not usually kind. Not because people were unkind, necessarily, but because feelings were unguarded and . . . true. At least, they were true in the moment they were felt.