I just finished for the second time The Sorceress and the Cygnet by Patricia A. McKillip, the first book of her Cygnet Duology.
Astonishingly, I think I like it better the second time than I did the first, if for no other reason than I could track this tale out of corn and stars from the first husks right to the heart of the swan whose black wings protect Ro Holding. But the lesson is the same: some powers are meant to be known and not used, and in some areas it is better to make the choice to stop learning - for with every heart you burn knowingly it is your own you cast into the flames.
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