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Boulden nowadays.Three days after Deirane's house arrest, the free warrior entered the room where the human had taken up residence. When she wasn't training with Serton in weapons, she spent her free time reading. Lying on her bed, on her stomach, with her legs raised and her feet playing in the sunlight, she had borrowed from the library the epic of a Stoltzen whose antiquity was lost in the limbo of myth. This kind of literature fascinated her. Her own people had been brought by the Feythas during their invasion, and the longest human lineages were only a few generations old. While her father and grandfather had been born to human parents, earlier generations had developed into a strange machine that mimicked the workings of a woman's womb. And her most distant free ancestors, accor
