Count Your Blessings

the VOICE In reality's shadow the blind see best The Voice merely inclined her head to Samuel as he turned down her offer, though he clearly didn't want to, given that he still suffered with it. "You cannot know that. In fact, you can know that, and you will know it is not true," she said of his fellow Ascended and their feelings towards them. All was a vague term, and the Voice did not like vague. "They are not your family, but your parents made you take on the mantle of Ascended," she said slowly for him, as if to show his contradictions. She rose to her feet, as if having heard enough. "The time for wanting is past, Samuel," she said. "Whether you wanted it or not, you have it. It is not going anywhere. What you do next will be the making of you."