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Quote #10
No voice answered her call. She hadn't expected one. Her brothers would be righting the raiders, or dead, her mother and aunt hiding in the forest with the animals.
She scuffed with her feet among the fringes of the heap. It was a way of preventing herself from weeping, because she felt she had no right to. Of her own will she had cut every connection with Woodbourne, even grief. All of that was over. (Epilogue.6-7)
Every Urlasdaughter is tied inextricably to her family at Woodbourne, even if—like Saranja—she deliberately leaves them all behind and rejects her legacy. When Saranja comes home and doesn't find her family, she feels a great sense of grief and regret for pushing them away for so many years. Now she won't have a chance to redeem herself... or so she thinks.