In the Beginning
“In the village the moment of a woman knowing she was carrying a child had been a prized and honored one. She would tell the Village Mother first, then other women, last of all her husband. That night the village made a feast, much like the feast for a marriage, and they sang together: songs of joy in the new life and hope for the future.
Va stared about her. In front lay the flat emptiness of the lake; behind, strange hills and stranger mountains capped with snow. The valley had been a rich... enclosed space, the village a stronghold within it. Here was no valley and no stronghold, no Village Mother to tell, no woman who would rejoice with her and help her make the garments she would wear while the child grew in her. This was an open friendless place, the only person near her this man she hated—this slaughterer of her people, murderer of her father and her brother.
And father of her own child. She hated the child, too, for that, for being sprung from such a one.MoreLess
Va stared about her. In front lay the flat emptiness of the lake; behind, strange hills and stranger mountains capped with snow. The valley had been a rich... enclosed space, the village a stronghold within it. Here was no valley and no stronghold, no Village Mother to tell, no woman who would rejoice with her and help her make the garments she would wear while the child grew in her. This was an open friendless place, the only person near her this man she hated—this slaughterer of her people, murderer of her father and her brother.
And father of her own child. She hated the child, too, for that, for being sprung from such a one.MoreLess
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