Hakim had been a steady, calming presence in her life for over ten years. She had gotten her gift early, at only eight years old, predicting a thunderstorm—not unlike the one in her mind now—that would wipe out the crops if they didn’t harvest soon. When it turned out to be true, Hakim had come to the orphanage to see her, and her life had changed.
Her parents had died when she was young. People said her mother had visions as well, but it drove her to madness and eventually to seek out the Unfettered. Not long after, she was a known ubir and was caught by the venari. Her father died of grief five months later, and Eta had been handed over to her new keepers.
Hakim had become her family, though, after he came that day to ask her about her visions. She told him that she had never had a vis
