The Witches' Blade (Five Crowns of Okrith, #2)

by A.K. Mulford

“A common sickness amongst men who were raised to believe they were owed the world.”

“I should have—” “You can play that game forever, Rua,” Bri said, standing back from the fire. “It changes nothing. You learn. You move forward. It is the only way and then the fear of it will lessen.”

There was a word for it in Yexshiri: aviavere. It meant nostalgia for something that never was.