““Aye. Is why we’se covered our heads… sacred ground we’se on.” Ava’s chest tightened again. She stood upon the ashes of generations of Wildlanders, the men and women who had built this community and loved one another and sacrificed themselves to keep people safe from the Dark. She remembered a few nights back, when she’d held Jodah as he’d wept. He had said she belonged here, too, but how could she? She’d never had such courage or strength as these Wildlanders possessed. All along, she’d thought herself above them, when, in fact, she now knew, she was so far below she’d never measure up.””
