Seeing the two Pillars standing together, lines already stamped across their young features, Shae tilted her face toward the sun, closing her eyes for a moment against the burning tightness in her chest—sadness and pity jumbled with pride and hope. She wasn’t done yet; she had to help Niko as she’d promised she would—but with that final step, she could lay down the burden she and her brothers had carried across a canyon that had so often seemed impassable. Hilo. Lan, Shae whispered in her mind, can you see this, from wherever you are? We did it at last. We kept our clan. We made it stronger
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