Part One: Preface

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"You are to name her Ashna, and she will be a gift. You will die in her birth, but it will be worth it. She will change the world."
Marine nodded, her eyes closed, hands held in prayer.
"Yes, oh great prophet."
"Know that in exchange for this gift, your own life shall be taken. The cost is fair for such a gift. She will have a hard life, in the beginning, but she will be cast among the stars with the great ones."
Marine frowned, then nodded again.
"Of course. The price is fair, for the gift of change."

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