Vita Nuova Part Three

 

 Part Two—KazaKu is able to pull off her desperate plan to remain with Karak/Beatrus with remarkably little difficulty, only to discover that winner the battle sometimes means losing the war or, worse, that the war was doomed to be lost before it was even begun.

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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Vita Nuova Part Two

 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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Vita Nuova--Part One

 

Part one—KazaKu is persuaded by Shalana, the closest thing she has to a friend, to climb onto the roof of the monastery next door in order to spy on Prince Beatrus, who has been sent there for relief from the burden of ruling as a possible respite from the nameless sorrow that had plagued him for years. From her hiding place, she discovers his secret talent and combination of ability and sadness inexplicably drives her to take ever greater risks to learn more about him.

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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