The Stone Gods.

"Human beings often display emotion they don't feel. And they often feel emotion they do not display."

That's a discription of me all right. I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

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You can change everything about yourself -your name, your home, your skin colour, your gender, even your parents, your private history- but you can't change the time you were born in, or what it is you will have to live through.