Jack of Harts

Aeryn wasn’t born to fight The War. She didn’t pick a pilot to be her partner. She was alive long before the Shang changed us all. How do I know? Because I remember her. The Arnam have always loved Northern Minnesota because of all our lakes and rivers and such. You can see their towns at the bottom of many of them, and beach parties have a tendency to attract the Arnam since the sound travels underwater. So I knew a lot of Arnam before The War began. Aeryn was one of them. She was the mind of Rainy Lake City, just outside my own International Falls, and she used to come up to the surface for our parties on a weekly basis. She wore a younger avatar back then, to fit in with us kids, and the kids who followed us. Then the Shang attacked and changed everything.

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