'In the Clan, every year we have a Receiving Day. All the children who turned sixteen in the last year receive a special Gift to help the Clan, and our warriors, the Band.'
'What Gift did you gain?'
'The Gift of Discovery, the ability to find what is lost,' Jedi said with a smile. 'I was hoping to find my sister.'
'Why did you bring up Gifts?' Liat asked a third question.
'Because on my Receiving Day, there was an extra Gift. It would disappear if the child died, so it proved to me that my sister was alive. It was the Gift of Foresight, the ability to see the future.'
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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...
