A Tune to Make Them Follow (Severed Realms, #2)

by T.A. Lawrence

It just so happened that the children I found, the broken ones in need of a home even a fraction better than the one the Fates had dropped them into, were also the most resilient. And I had found that resilient children possessed a knack for becoming whatever they needed to be to thrive.

I mostly just watched, and listened, and dwelt in the space between my ears as we walked.

As resilient as she was, Amity had one of those consciences which the beatings had only tenderized rather than forging a callus.

It was customary for Avelean men to have them inked into their skin, marking the loss of a loved one, the true marker for coming of age.