part of a character sketch
I am Melanie Ruin, known as Sable.
We are all seers. That’s what Pye doesn’t understand. Great Aunt Sophun is known as a seer, but only because that’s all she does. But when Ama gives her clients exactly what they need to relax, how does she know? When Halm carves a bit of wood into a shape so obvious that nothing else fits the wood so well, when Telen buys exactly what people in the city will want weeks from now, even when Pye finds the right path to lead her to what she needs, they are all seeing. AunSoph’s gift is to see what each child is best able to see, and what occupation each gift will serve best in.
Pye may be older than I, but I have been named heir to AunSoph, because my gift most closely approaches hers. AunSoph says that in twenty years, I will be well-enough trained to take over as head of family, the youngest head of family in our house’s history.
We are all seers. That’s what Pye doesn’t understand. Great Aunt Sophun is known as a seer, but only because that’s all she does. But when Ama gives her clients exactly what they need to relax, how does she know? When Halm carves a bit of wood into a shape so obvious that nothing else fits the wood so well, when Telen buys exactly what people in the city will want weeks from now, even when Pye finds the right path to lead her to what she needs, they are all seeing. AunSoph’s gift is to see what each child is best able to see, and what occupation each gift will serve best in.
Pye may be older than I, but I have been named heir to AunSoph, because my gift most closely approaches hers. AunSoph says that in twenty years, I will be well-enough trained to take over as head of family, the youngest head of family in our house’s history.