Birthright

Lying on her death bed, Jour Henituse neé Thames takes one last look at her precious son's Rings - the Rings that weren't warped - and sees a heartbreaking loneliness.

Instead of keeping her family's power with her to her grave, she decides to pass it on to her next of kin instead - just like her ancestors had done before her.

Cale was born with the red hair of the Thames. This was just as much his birthright as it had been hers. Their clan may be gone, but their blood lives on in her son.

As they say, the future was never set in stone.

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Or: The Annual Rings of Life doesn't just show the years in a person's lifespan in the form of the rings of a tree trunk, but also short visions of what happens during those years.