Liat sat with Jedi and Emerson around a small campfire.
Emerson excused himself to go gather some more firewood, leaving the two alone.
'May I ask you a question, Jedi?' she asked softly, breaking the silence.
'Sure,' Jedi replied as he leaned back on his elbows.
'Do you know why they captured me?'
'Yeah,' he looked into the fire's flames.
'Can you tell me?'
'According to Emerson, you saw the execution of a little girl because she had blue eyes. The Circle obviously didn't want outsiders to know of their actions.'
'That's why they killed her?' Liat opened her eyes wide in surprise, her thoughts turning to her own eye colour.
Jedi finally looked up at her. 'Yes.'
'That's why they wanted to kill me.'
'What?' he asked. It was his turn to be shocked.
'When they captured me, they told me in no uncertain terms that they would kill me.'
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The Daughter of Truth | ✔️
Science FictionAmong the Clan, and the Cult who rule them, blue eyes are considered a curse, and any child born with blue eyes is killed within hours. But one child, blue-eyed Verity Ross, escapes the Cult's misguided superstition and her certain death. Yet it m...
