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Chapter 16

A Drop of Water
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The sun rises above the northern mountains, the heated rays melting the top
most layer of powdery snow. A single droplet of this pure melted snow runs
through the rocky ground, tumbling into a narrow crevice. Leading the way for
other droplets to follow the large drop explores the depth of the crevice,
making its way to the center of the mountain. It slides down an ancient
stalactite before it lands on the forehead of a newly born babe, the child is
so freshly born that birthing fluids are still wet upon her creamy white
skin. The screaming babe named Calbaseeti calms as a trickle of cool water
runs over her head, passed her curls of downy red hair, and into a large pool
created by centuries of dripping water. The pool is known to the people from
which the child is born as the Pool of the World and on this day, the day of
her birth, she is being blessed by the water that feeds it.

Her people are known as the Altrisupendai, and one day she will train to be a
priestess to the pool.