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“But beneath the things the people remembered and the swaying and teeth-grinding they wanted to forget, they tried most of all to fathom if the passage of their lives was fate or wish.”

“And they would resign themselves to wander the wiles of the times, unable to reconcile the story of the united territories they’d been taught and the world that existed.”

“So that Dash lived in and around a traumatized world, and he experienced it much like the candy that defined his childhood: in smaller bits and pieces that could more easily fit into the fragile spaces of his ten-year-old mind.”

“And from every corner and shadow the sounds and smells of those hunting and hunted abounded. The rip and tear of flesh and crack of bone. Drunken singing amid frightened shrieks. The boom and thump of one being dominating another. The scream and squawk of unending retaliation.”