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When Emily is hatted, and un-hatted; when she learns the Thunder Dance; when she leaves her House, and when she fights —

Everything she is, and everything she’ll be —

It’s all founded right here, right now, with that fiery jaguar and her Mom.

The Keeper, the traitor, and the savior — all the life and death of her, all the legend that should have been of her, and to the remaking of the world — it’s all born now, in this moment, when the beauty that is the flaming jaguar shines reflected in her eyes.

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