The flight north started like most journeys with adolescents, with Myrti asking question after question despite the bugs that flew into her mouth at nigh-regular intervals.
Rain answered none of them, but when she figured that out Myrti switched to telling him things about herself.
Her mother had been a captain, and she had never known her father. One of the other boys said her mother died because she killed one of Maledict's warriors, but most of the people she'd been imprisoned with had been liars. They wanted her angry enough to do things they were too scared to do themselves.
Her mother always told her not to lie. And not to fight until she was strong, but Myrti was better with a bow than with "anything stabby."
She liked peppers but hated broccoli. She was good with a bow because she could sense where creatures were, but she had to turn her "light" off to shoot or she would get overwhelmed.
