Flame of Sevenwaters

As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

A fine man", observed my sister, pouring mead for the two of us. "Well trained.

Our family has survived a long time. We’ve weathered battles and transformations, enchantments and floods and fires. We’ve endured being sent away, and we’ve coped with evildoers in our midst. If I were telling a story of Sevenwaters – and it would be a grand epic told over all the nights of a long winter – I would surely end it with a triumph. A happy ending, all well, puzzles solved, enemies defeated, the future stretching ahead bright and true. With new challenges and new adventures, certainly, because that’s the way things always are. But overall it would be a very satisfying story, one to give the listener heart.

It came to me that it was possible to be afraid of your own fear, and that such a phenomenon was utterly ridiculous.