Fern was being stupid. I knew why she wanted to get out. Hell, we had seen her fire – her eagerness to leave – since she was a child. My mom used to warn her mom that she was going to be trouble. She should have been a fire talent and left earth to the gentle ones like me.
I knew what she thought of me. Mercury the merciful. Mercury the gentle. I had spunk in me, too. I just didn’t want to show it to anyone. It wasn’t my place. I’d seen it enough times around the reserve to know that individuality was squashed as soon as it popped its head out. It was easier to hide it and play by the rules.
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