![]() ![]() ![]() Devon the Daft,” Ramsey said, bracing against the roof. She told Ramsey all about it while they were playing on the parapets of Fairweather Manor, climbing the sloped tiling as they had so many dozens of times.Ī mother-bride was arriving that afternoon, after many long years of no new marriages at Fairweather Manor, and they both wanted to catch sight of the procession. But Devon also liked to listen at doors and was very good at sneaking around, so she found out anyway. Out in the wider world, human scientists had begun trying to cure infertility in their own kind, and that excited the Families very much, in case that knowledge could be adapted to book eater women, too.ĭevon wasn’t supposed to know things like that, since she was still only twelve years old and kept apart from adult business. ![]() Few girls were born, and those who were born could only carry two children before early menopause set in. The Six Families struggled with fertility. The whispers were everywhere: babies made from science. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon―like all other book eater women―is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. ![]()
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