The Sheltered City (2014)
“Caedian was given his own, and though he was still locked in at night, he made not even a whisper of complaint. Amon did not make trouble on his behalf. He thought he had done enough of that.
The network of caverns that held Esper was far larger than was needed to hold the little village’s worth of halfdead—or dragonblooded, as Emil Tanu called them. All in all, there were about forty of them, with only ten of the first generation—the ones who had been within the Last City’s walls—remaining.... The rest had been raised with only rumors of the Tree and the elf-lords, and it was they who were most curious about the elf now in their midst.
Caedian seemed not to notice their curiosity; it flowed over him like water over motionless rock. When he emerged from his room to fetch food or go to the warm underground pools where the Esperites went to bathe, he moved among them like a ghost, unaware he still had weight and influence in the living world.MoreLess
The network of caverns that held Esper was far larger than was needed to hold the little village’s worth of halfdead—or dragonblooded, as Emil Tanu called them. All in all, there were about forty of them, with only ten of the first generation—the ones who had been within the Last City’s walls—remaining.... The rest had been raised with only rumors of the Tree and the elf-lords, and it was they who were most curious about the elf now in their midst.
Caedian seemed not to notice their curiosity; it flowed over him like water over motionless rock. When he emerged from his room to fetch food or go to the warm underground pools where the Esperites went to bathe, he moved among them like a ghost, unaware he still had weight and influence in the living world.MoreLess
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