I arch my eyebrow at Amari and think back to her mention of a training accident. I assumed the scar came from her brother’s sword, but was she holdin… - Tomi Adeyemi

After the Raid, practicing these incantations was the only part of him I had left.”

In death, the other spirits of the arena passed on their pain. Their hate. In their memories I felt the sting of the guards’ whips. I tasted the salt of fallen tears on my tongue. But Minoli brought me to the dirt fields of Minna, where she and her sharp-nosed siblings worked the land for autumn’s corn crop. Though the sun shone brutal and the work was hard, each moment passed with a smile, with song.”

I thought things could be different. I wanted them to be different. But after what we just saw, we have no choice. We can't give people that kind of power.