ananda
AND THE DEATHBED CONFESSION
TWO YEARS LATER
Ananda was the oldest living person in Starcast.
It was a nuisance, to be honest. They carried you through every parade on a raised platform, honored you at every village festival by sitting you before the crowds, and asked for some tidbit of profound wisdom at every town meeting, acting as if you’d achieved something worthy of grand respect.
But the only grand thing Ananda had managed to do in her life was not-die for the last one hundred and sixteen years.
Other than that, she kind of felt like a fraud and a great, heaping liar to boot. For she’d kept a grave secret for a hundred of those long, guilt-ridden years.
And the Eradicators had paid the ultimate price for it.
Ergo, she did not feel as if she deserved any of the honors p
