What Heroes Do
Chapter Nine
There's nothing in this world that can't be fixed by a good, solid meal. That's what Twilight's mama used to say, and he would never in his life dream of disagreeing.
This did not come from Uli, though he treasured her and Rusl as much as any ma and pa. No — it was something that had come from his birth mama, the one who had brought him into this world and had loved him and cherished him right up until his seventh year. He had scant remaining memories of the time before he was adopted by his second family in Ordon, but those that he did have were more precious to him than all the jewels of the world. Memories of being held close and rocked to sleep on cold nights, memories of singing while they did the laundry, of picnicking amongst wildflowers while his baby sister saw her first spring.
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