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84 YEARS AFTER the fold was destroyed. After the Darkling was defeated. After the deti sveta, the children of the light, were created. 84 years the Sun-summoner sacrificed her light and her life for Ravka. 84 years after the Saint died, her lover perished.
The orphanage, once a place of life, was now empty, the children grown and the staff dismissed.
Malyen Oretsev died in the arms of the woman with white hair and chestnut eyes. She looked like his daughter, too young to be his wife. A woman of great power, crumpled and torn by the pain of immortality.

100 years after, her powers, lost for what seemed like forever, returned. The death of the deti sveta left the power of Morozova's amplifiers with nowhere to go, other than back to their first master, back to their home, the Sun-summoner. The Saint. The woman with white hair and chestnut eyes.
The power was not how she recognised it. It was now the power of the three Morozova amplifiers. It filled the empty void, inside her, left by eternity. But she did not pick up her old blue and gold kefta but a black and gold one, for without darkness, there is no need for the light. No need for the woman of white hair and chestnut eyes.

200 years after, the woman had changed. She barely ever lifted the stone mask from her face, because that is what time does, makes life unbareable. But the woman could not find it in her to seek out the one person who understood, because she knew what name would be waiting for her if she was found alive, for the woman with white hair and chestnut eyes:

Sankta Alina

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