The Light-Bearer and the Darkness: Ancestors' Shame

Dame Daye rarely thought about how his foreparents came to be in America. He understood, in broad terms, that they were victims of abduction, forced migration, and enslavement, but those ties felt distant and unknowable. Everything changed the day he came home and found a cryptic note begging him to read a strange metal-bound book. As he read, his ancestral past sprang to life in his mind, and the lives of long-forgotten people became his memories. Dame realized that time had not severed hi...