"Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
~ Orson Scott Card ~












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