“No one could wield it but him; hells, no one else had ever been able to get near the damned thing, not in all the aeons since he’d created time. But Itempas’s daughter held it before her in a two-handed grip, and there was no doubt in my mind that she knew how to use it. “Control,” said Itempas. I was near enough to hear this, though his voice was low and urgent. He had stepped back, quite sensibly, to avoid dying again. But he leaned as close as he could, anxious to advise his daughter. “R...emember, Glee, or the power will destroy you.” “I will remember,” she said. —The Kingdom of Gods, chapter 22 * * * On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Glee decides to go and find her father. She goes downstairs to inform her mother of this. Her mother is unsurprised. “If you were anyone else,” says Mother, “I would accuse you of being impulsive.” There is a hint of irony in her voice as she says this, but Glee ignores it.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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