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"The world grows and changes, but a gift such as yours should not be allowed to pass from it. The world needs it's ambitious dreamers, men who would shape it to their own ends. But it needs those who would keep them in check, too. The world needs it's courtesans . . . And the world needs it bear-witches, my lovely savage. You won't withdraw from it like the rest of your folk, will you?"--Naamah's Blessing, Jacqueline Carey