Northstar Vale dancer

mother fire spoke.

and how she could see! just barely, but she could see! this face was the one that sung to her, fed her, loved her. she knew these things to be true in her heart always.

but now she could see the proof.

"i can see you!"

but it was not the words of her mother, it was the joyous babbling of a baby and yet she felt as if she spoke clear as day.

zosime did not know it, but this was also the first time she smiled.