Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that — Libbie Hawker, Daughter of Sand and Stone
Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that — Libbie Hawker, Daughter of Sand and Stone
Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that — Libbie Hawker, Daughter of Sand and Stone
Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that — Libbie Hawker, Daughter of Sand and Stone
Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that — Libbie Hawker, Daughter of Sand and Stone
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Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that will mature in the coming years to the smoky tones of a priestess or a queen -- a woman of great natural power.

— Libbie Hawker, Daughter of Sand and Stone
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