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She was the softest and most vulnerable creature; she was the strongest and most unyielding of his warriors.
Hilo was quiet for a minute. “You’re a good Weather Man, Shae.” Grudging pride and a touch of bitterness sat in his voice. She leaned her head back against the pillows and closed her eyes as exhaustion finally caught up with her. “You’re a good wartime Pillar, Hilo,” she murmured. “And we’re fighting a war. Our own slow war.” She was nearly asleep as Hilo adjusted the blanket over her. “I told Andy to come over later today and take a look at that leg,” he mentioned. “Who knows if the doctors in Lukang are any good?” She felt his lips plant a kiss on her brow, and a moment later, she heard the
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I love them
He didn’t know how the conversation went between Wen and Shae, but he was glad his wife handled that part, as Shae might refuse what she most wanted for no other reason than to deprive him of the position of having been right.
“Who did it?” Shae was genuinely curious, almost bitterly admiring. Decades of murderous hatred between No Peak and the Mountain, and someone else had plunged a knife into Ayt’s neck. “I did,” Ayt answered. She smiled again at Shae’s uncomprehending silence. “I executed Ven Sando and his sons for treason ten years ago. But I let his wife and daughters live.” Ayt’s voice was a slurred, dry, acidic whisper. “It wasn’t enough for Ven’s daughter that I die in the bombing. She wanted me to know it was her. I made the error of underestimating another woman.” The Pillar wetted her lips and fixed her
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Anden walked into the study. Hilo was standing behind the desk, the telephone receiver in his hand and address book open, looking for a number. The knuckles of his hands were untidily wrapped with gauze. At Anden’s entrance, he glanced up impatiently and said, “What do you want, Andy?” He found the number he was looking for and began to punch it into the phone. “Don’t do this.” “Do what?” his cousin snapped. Anden walked up to the desk, forcing the Pillar’s attention back to him. “This. Raining your anger and guilt down on Niko because he isn’t following the plan you had for him. Pushing him
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FINALLY someone is calling him out on his bullshit. Everyone say thank you Anden
He put a hand on Anden’s shoulder and leaned against it heavily, so that he nearly sagged against his cousin. “I was angry at you for a long time after you refused to wear jade. Of course you remember. Now, though . . . I’m thankful you’re not a Fist, Andy. I need—” Hilo’s voice faltered. “I need one of my brothers to live.”
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His sweating face bore the mad stamp of a man holding a knife to his own throat and shouting, desperate for recognition at the end of it all.
“The truth is that of course I came to congratulate all of you. I don’t come here very often, but that’s because I have such a strong Weather Man. Even when we don’t agree, she does what’s right for the clan.” Hilo went up to Shae and saluted her. “Far do your enemies flee, Kaul-jen,” he declared, uttering the traditional Green Bone congratulations to a victorious warrior, before putting an arm over Shae’s shoulder and kissing her brow. Even though the Weather Man could no longer wear jade and her triumph had been a distant political one decades in the making, echoes broke out at once, and
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She never used her family name as a weapon but she did not need to; everyone murmured that she was her father’s daughter.
“I’m a senior Fist now, you don’t have to remind me of every little thing, or lecture me about how to keep people in line,” Jaya groaned, rummaging hungrily in the cooler as she held the phone against her ear with one shoulder. “Anything else?” “Only that I’m proud of you.” Jaya grinned with pleasure.
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She touched her bare throat, where her jade had once rested. We’ve lost so much, all of us. She and Ayt Mada could never escape the rivalry of their clans, but they understood each other, as women who were green in a man’s world.
