Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.

Souls aren’t discrete units — or even units at all. They’re more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror.

Promise people with the hope of not letting any fracture misalign you from fulfilling those promises. That gives you a recommendable brand.

Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture.But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces.