Part Two—Kaza Ku is grows closer to Beatrus/Karak and more at ease with his
friends and their pastimes. Yes Felix is annoying and Heinrich's
intentions highly suspect but they are a small price to pay to be
near the object of her adoration. But then she receives terrible news
that will destroy all she treasures unless she acts fast and then,
with time running out, she realizes the even more horrifying
solution.
KazaKu is a boarder at the local sanctum for the arcanely gifted, possessing the battle gift which endows her with more than human strength and dexterity and a powerful resistance to fatigue and injury. Unfortunately, even if the side effect of this type of gift was an extremely violent temper, her options would be limited. Those with the battle gift make fine warriors but are good for little else and, since in her society women can not be warriors, she is left in a decidedly uncomfortable position. But she has not chaffed overmuch regarding lack of social prospects, present and future, unable to imagine an alternative, until a chain of events takes her life in a radically different direction.
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