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    Long ago, the gods appointed the Nie clan to be the executors of divine justice: to punish corruption, to fight against injustice, to protect the weak against the strong. They blessed your first ancestors with clever minds and strong consciences and loving hearts, taught them to walk among humans, to look and think and speak like humans, to fight like humans with a blade as well as with teeth and claws. They forged them into instruments, made the Nie clan the deadly sabre of heaven.

    But: said your mother—we have never forgotten that we used to be beasts. The heavens could not and would not take that away from us. We feel everything fierce and simple; that is our greatest strength and our greatest burden.

    You remember one day, perhaps a different day, when she held you close, though your mother was not someone who often showed her love through touch. She said, you feel so much, a-Jue; you are full to bursting with it.

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