Bethel was universally respected
even as his sons were reduced to nightmares suffered by wayward children. It was the same for us everywhere and I never
became acclimated to the automatic assumption that I was to be
feared. I certainly was a fearful creature, but when you tell your
children to stay away from the spindly little boy from the forest,
you are working a little too hard at inciting the rage within that spindly little
boy. I was just a kid, after all, no more mature or developed
than a Drey or a human ten-year-old. I learned early I was something to
be feared and those early whispers and rumors have clung to me
through the years. People create their own monsters, and it's hard
not to become what everyone wants you to be when they push your inner nature to overtake your mind.
- from Sand into Glass, Book 1 of the Emergence Trilogy (Book 6 of the Malora Series)
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