"Do you think he's mind-damaged?" Pareesa gave voice to the terrible thought. "Like Shahla?"
Gita's large, black eyes stared at him as though she could see right through him.
"Sometimes, when you witness something really bad happen," Gita said, "things happen that can make you relive the moment. But then it goes away. You push it back until the next time something happens to dig the memory up. I think that's what happened when they hurt Ninsianna."
Pareesa opened her mouth to ask what kind of wound could cause that reaction and saw the tears welling in Gita's eyes. How much did she know about the peculiar young woman? Really? How much did any of them know? Until Gita had showed up in training one day, it had been as though the girl was invisible? It occurred to her that perhaps Gita was
