Clarisse McClellan's Daughter

Oh, wow. Thank you so much for this! What an amazing character study. I love how much you capture the difficulty of being a child of two worlds at odds with each other, of having a genetic history that's impossible to escape and just as impossible to ignore.

These lines particularly struck me:

Ziyal knows nearly everyone brands her something evil, something traitorous, something tainted and fluctuating between poor unfortunate and blood collaborator, the instant they see her.

The overseer, the talent, and the truth.

And the image of Kira as the star Ziyal sets her course by, wow, that's so gorgeous and I think it's really descriptive of their relationship. Again, thank you so much for this! ♥