He knew she didn’t understand. Seeing was about conviction. The better you understood the world and the more fully you believed it, the more powerfully you could See. None of the elites of the three Cities of Lies really understood the world. They knew the big secret, of course. They knew that all of history was a lie told to instill fear in those whose fearlessness could have rewritten it. They knew the only Ajungo were themselves. They knew power. But they didn’t know powerlessness. They didn’t know what it meant to have your gods stolen from you, leaving you blind to your own past. They
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