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Kiria
Gray light, just enough to see by, streamed into the outpost. Kiria grated her eyes open. The tension between her and Firian these past two days had made her jumpy and anxious. Every noise sounded like an enemy. All news was bad news. Anger radiated like heat off Firian even as he rode.
Alone with her thoughts, she listened as Firian’s words hurdled down familiar tracks in her mind. He never should have said those things. The memory made her so angry she could cry. Tanyu would see that as weakness, though, so she swallowed tears down into bitterness. You act like you have nothing. He’d spat the words, so angry that she was given everything he wanted. That she wanted the same things, but she got them without working as hard. His arrogance made more sense now, but she couldn’t ex
