Zorya

Background
She was born in one of the Ahibanu temples, a child of some Sister or Initiate, and like all such children, she has never known who her mother or father were nor even in which temple she first breathed. It was never a particular concern for none of her peers knew their parents, but what always weighed on her was the colour of her eyes. Certainly, she was not the only child without Seht's blessing to be raised in the temple: in her temple alone, a full third of the children lacked the blue eyes that marked them as Blessed, and by mid-teens, even some of the blue-eyed ones who were so certain they had the gift, showed no signs.

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