There is so much confusion around here! It reverberates even into the women’s quarters, which is usually a pretty quiet place. I am to be given to the Thirteenth Dragonhorse. No, I am to be given to the Telenir warlord that my father is holding prisoner. No, I am to be given to the warlord’s Mahdi, whomever that may be. I just wish I knew, so I could prepare myself to go in a straight line somewhere. My father grows ever angrier and less in… (MORE)
My mother has kept me home from my usual routine, saying she thinks I am Ill and feverish. I don’t feel ill, but I am beginning to feel very strange, as though I am in two places at once – caught between what Anchoress Samarra says is important, and what my mother and Anchoress Ensharra say is important. I feel like two different people trapped in the same body. My mother says it is because Samarra is drugging me. I cannot believe that of her. My friend, Jasreth, says I should listen to that part which feels most deeply like the truth, but that makes no real sense for me. I have to focus on what is most politically correct, and sometimes I’m afraid… (MORE)
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