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K.A. Tucker
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January 30 - February 3, 2024
unable. I’ve lived in poverty. I’ve seen the many ways that systems built to help people have failed them when they’re at their lowest. This is the first time I’ve sat next to someone who has the power to do something about it. “They spent their entire lives serving you, and now that they’re old and broken, you corral them into this squalor and pat yourself on the back for your benevolence? No, I don’t approve of this. I think you should do more. They’re people, even if you can’t find a use for them anymore. They’re not inferior to your kind.”
My role was as a tester. I would attend births in the villages and assess the babies for caster abilities. I remember the day Margrethe was born well.” She smiles fondly.
Foreshadowing
That is an elemental with affinities to all four elements. They are extremely rare and extremely powerful. They are the closest thing to the fates themselves walking this earth.
Foreshadowing
seers foretell of the fates using the power of the nymphs to walk among us in flesh and blood, and to rule over the people.
Foreshadowing
haven’t survived this long by playing the lamb when a wolf is needed.
was waiting for smoke to drift from his ears. Right, Elisaf?” “The vein in his forehead was pulsating, Your Highness.”
I adore Elisaf
On impulse, I graze my fingertip across the engraving. Faint female laughter coils within my ear, as if carried on a breeze. I frown curiously and retrace the lettering. More faint laughter echoes, a high, playful giggle like that of a response to a tickle. It’s joined by others. “Can you hear that?” “Hear what?” Annika asks.
Foreshadowing
