It all began with a whisper. And the word was Askani. Outsider.

The song has always been within her, bubbly with irrepressibly effervescent joy from the moment of conception, sustaining her through the most awful of the dark times, when the land seemed drenched deep in blood and none she counted as friend or family survived for her to turn to. But it had ever been a little thing, a solo instrument, never so bright and rich, brimful of symphonic glory as now. Passion burns hot and fierce as a newborn star, casting perceptions wider than imagination, until the bonds between self and creation, one and all, mortal and infinite, blur and fade away and she no longer knows where the one ends and the other begins.

No one knows why she came to walk among us...to lead an entire world from the depths of despair to the threshold of faith in a better tomorrow...Soon she gathered others around her. Women with the ability to open their minds to her training...A sisterhood capable of transversing time and space, bound by the yet undisputable axiom "What is...is."

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