" Tolya, we need to know about Joshua Painter.” “Do we? Why?” He waited, wondering if she was about to confirm what he suspected about the boy. When she hesitated again, he added, “This will stay between us until we both agree to tell others.” Her body sagged with relief. “You think he’s an Intuit?” he asked. It was a reasonable question. Saul had said the boy had a strong sense of the world. “He’s an Intuit, but not quite in the same way that I am. I think . . .” Jesse hesitated again before saying quickly, “I think his mother was a blood prophet. "

― Anne Bishop , Wild Country (The World of the Others, #2; The Others, #7)