Redsand Canyon is not pain, it’s applause

His mother was worsening.

Aquillius wasn’t a boy who followed his mother around like a lost sheep. But he knew in his bones that soon, she would go away. Somewhere.

Father? His voice tasted strange in his mouth as he looked for @Germanicus .

He was trying, trying to understand ever since Ruenna had stepped down from being Matrona. He was starting to realize he wasn’t ever going to understand it.

But he desperately wanted to.