Chapter 15Rohene
Oh God, she affected me! With each step we took I felt myself changing, moving away from the woman I’d been toward something else, something more real and honest. I, who’d embraced leadership and a life without love; the Rohene whose future had been spread out in pleasing milestones of awards and battles. The upright leader who never would’ve forgotten about her troops or wasted time kissing the pretty lips of a witch.
The new me seemed emptied of the consuming ambition which had been enough for so long. Now I was refreshed and energized like one awoken after a deep slumber. I wondered whether my bow and arrow had ever satisfied me in the way I’d believed, or if my whole life had been a kind of pregnancy, where I—the unborn—had waited for birth.
I asked myself a million
