Part of the price of magic. It messed with family genetics, cutting fertility, leaving a whole child here, a disabled one there, and, in her case, one without any powers at all. She might have been a second-generation Divergent, but without the pyromancy that marked her bloodline, simply being a divergent meant nothing. It wasn’t even something she could brag about—telling anyone about magic would constitute a breach of the Seal, which meant death for her and whoever she’d told. And since she lived in Akira’s jurisdiction, he’d have to give the order for her death.
Part of the price of magic. It messed with family genetics, cutting fertility, leaving a whole child here, a disabled one there, and, in her case, one without any powers at all. She might have been a second-generation Divergent, but without the pyromancy that marked her bloodline, simply being a divergent meant nothing. It wasn’t even something she could brag about—telling anyone about magic would constitute a breach of the Seal, which meant death for her and whoever she’d told. And since she lived in Akira’s jurisdiction, he’d have to give the order for her death.