Being the last living witness to an era was lonelier than she had expected.She was surrounded by family—by little Wren and Soren and the children and young Cain and his family and the sprawling extended network of people who were connected to her by blood and by history and by the specific inheritance of everything the family had built. She was not alone in any practical sense.She was alone in the specific sense of being the only person who carried the full span of the living memory.She was the only person who remembered her parents as people rather than as history. The only person who remembered Marcus as the fourteen-year-old who had set an alarm to be at breakfast with Elara on the morning she left for her travels. The only person who remembered Kael sitting across from her at a diplomatic function and looking at her like she was a person rather than a symbol.The memories were entirely hers.She understood, for the first time fully, what her mother had been doing in the later y
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