Ione Sala has a slight nervous feeling like she just muffed something.  Needs to cover, distract.  "Well, I might as well go next," she says.  "I was born in a middling city at the junction of two minor rivers.  My parents were a couple of low-level city bureaucrats.  Intelligent enough not to be farmers, but, not really a lot smarter than that."  Incompetent, failed, filled with searing resentment at the world for it.  "I was noticeably a lot smarter than they were, so they," hated me resented me did what they could to make my life more miserable without that affecting how much they could sell me for, "didn't know what to do with me, really, and wizard-tracked me," sold me like the farm animal I was, "as soon as it became clear that I was going to be a bookish wizard type.  My life is just, that city, then Ostenso academy.   I would've expected to see the larger world for the first time when I went to the Worldwound, not that I'm complaining."

Ione Sala has a slight nervous feeling like she just muffed something.  Needs to cover, distract.  "Well, I might as well go next," she says.  "I was born in a middling city at the junction of two minor rivers.  My parents were a couple of low-level city bureaucrats.  Intelligent enough not to be farmers, but, not really a lot smarter than that."  Incompetent, failed, filled with searing resentment at the world for it.  "I was noticeably a lot smarter than they were, so they," hated me resented me did what they could to make my life more miserable without that affecting how much they could sell me for, "didn't know what to do with me, really, and wizard-tracked me," sold me like the farm animal I was, "as soon as it became clear that I was going to be a bookish wizard type.  My life is just that city, then Ostenso academy.   I would've expected to see the larger world for the first time when I went to the Worldwound, not that I'm complaining."

Ione Sala has a slight nervous feeling like she just muffed something.  Needs to cover, distract.  "Well, I might as well go next," she says.  "I was born in a middling city at the junction of two minor rivers.  My parents were a couple of low-level city bureaucrats.  Intelligent enough not to be farmers, but, not really a lot smarter than that."  Incompetent, failed, filled with searing resentment at the world for it.  "I was noticeably a lot smarter than they were, so they," hated me resented me did what they could to make my life more miserable without that affecting how much they could sell me for, "didn't know what to do with me, really, and wizard-tracked me," sold me like the farm animal I was, "as soon as it became clear that I was going to be a bookish wizard type.  My life is just that city, then Ostenso academy.   I also would've expected to see the larger world for the first time when I went to the Worldwound, not that I'm complaining."

Ione Sala has a slight nervous feeling like she just muffed something.  Needs to cover, distract.  "Well, I might as well go next," she says.  "I was born in a middling city at the junction of two minor rivers.  My parents were a couple of low-level city bureaucrats.  Intelligent enough not to be farmers, but, not really a lot smarter than that."  Incompetent, failed, filled with searing resentment at the world for it.  "I was noticeably a lot smarter than they were, so they," hated me and did what they could to make my life more miserable without that affecting how much they could sell me for, "didn't know what to do with me, really, and wizard-tracked me," sold me like the farm animal I was, "as soon as it became clear that I was going to be a bookish wizard type.  My life is just that city, then Ostenso academy.   I also would've expected to see the larger world for the first time when I went to the Worldwound, not that I'm complaining."