"It sounds like meditation could be really useful. I'll be honest, I was only good at the Bgztlian model--focusing on our foremothers. My grandmother, to be exact." But with her great and great-great grandmothers alive and well and her grandmother a disgrace, she knew to keep that quiet near home.

Tinya's expression softened. "It's got to be painful. To think of all of ten thousand years' worth of wisdom no longer there to consult."