52 Project #5: Rosetta Stone

When Triala was twelve, a transmute spoke to her.

She'd never told anyone else the story.  One of the defining characteristics of transmutes was that they didn't speak.  And she had only been a child, and had come within a hair of being killed.  People would say she had hallucinated.  They might even take her to the Magicians, suspecting a traumatized mind.  But she knew what she'd heard.  And the transmute hadn't killed her.

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