Jade Fern Grove not what i consider winning

the father was aware he could castigate his son. cast him down, demand the surrender of sharadoii.

but as they moved away from the place they had met suliya, he thought with heavy mind upon how this might sunder what tenuous feeling existed between he and ghelan. 

"i know your mother taught you many things from her valley which you will carry with you," sun eater said as those crimson eyes watched him, autumn leaves brilliant in his son's somber face. "but you were born lanzadoii. your mother carried you after the caribou. she grew you beside their herds. choose what you know is true."