Engines of Reason (Elder Race #2)

ARGUMENT

A WISE WOMAN ONCE SAID, we tell stories about ourselves, and that is what makes us human.

Once there was a girl who told a story about herself, that she was a princess who could recruit a wizard to fight a demon. And the tragedy of her later life was not that it was false, but that it was true just the once.

Once there was an old man who told a story about himself, that he was not a wizard and magic wasn’t real, and the tragedy of his later life was that it was not true, and the magic was.

Once there was another girl, who told a story about herself, and the story devoured her. This is all their stories, but mostly hers.