"dearly loved, despite the fact that he’d married [her] mother, a woman with an Ewu daughter”"

"“a two thousand year old tradition held on the first day of rainy season”"

"the only one good enough to learn the Great Mystic Points”"

"You can bring life, and when you get old, that ability becomes something else even greater, more dangerous and unstable”"

"like someone with a highly contagious disease”"

"haunted by someone else’s demise”"

"The clarity I was experiencing made the world so crisp and clear. Every sound outside seemed right against my ear. I …"

"ghosts of the future”"

"makes more sense now”"

"became a different creature that day, not so human”"