![]() ![]() She has little time to settle into household life before being approached by a rebel spy group, La Voz. She is the Primera and her school rival, Carmen, is the Segunda. Her parents are from the coast and have risked everything to put her in finishing school.ĭani is soon married off to a powerful political figure in one of the richest families in the Capital. Political riots have made the police paranoid, and she is worried that the increased security will reveal that her identification papers are forged. Despite graduating at the top of her class, Dani is worried about taking her place in the household. The story centers around Dani, a seventeen-year-old girl who is graduating from finishing school and is about to start her life as a wife. ![]() The Segunda is the mistress who is responsible for bearing and raising the husband’s children. Because of this myth, wealthy inland families customarily marry their sons off to two wives: a “Primera” and a “Segunda.” The Primera functions as a “political” wife who manages her husband’s social appearances and accompanies him at public functions. The myth ends with the three entities marrying each other in a holy trifecta. Medio has rich mythology about a complicated love triangle between the Sun God, the Moon Goddess, and a human woman. We Set the Dark on Fire takes place on the fictional island of Medio, where a wall separates the poverty-stricken coast and the wealthy inland. ![]()
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