The Burning City (Spirit Binders)

Authors: Alaya Dawn Johnson

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“We lived for a time in a corner of a local farmer’s house spared by the earthquake while we rebuilt our own. Tulo and I found our joy in each other whenever we could—which wasn’t often, given the lack of privacy. Parech said nothing. Tulo and I hardly referred to the new dimension of our relationship. In truth, we didn’t need to. It seemed so natural, so right, that I only thought about it as something new when I noticed the occasional reserve in Parech’s demeanor. Sometimes I felt the distance... between us like a block of ice. I knew that we had hurt him and I knew that he felt angry with himself for being hurt. Perhaps Tulo knew as well, but if so she said nothing. I watched Parech, like I always did. I wondered, like I always had. Only now, I had something of my own.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, Tulo’s fortune-telling act proved particularly lucrative. Everyone in Essel plunged into religious frenzy, sure they had done something to anger the gods or the spirits or their ancestors.MoreLess Read More Read Less