Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

“I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squ…”

“A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Wal…”

“It was easy to forget thatsometimes, when they were laughing together, or kissi…”

“She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear,...”