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Thalia’s Unbecoming: From Killer To Cancer Luna 142
THALIAIt was a Thursday. I woke on the last Thursday of the story, and I took one last inventory, and I did it slowly. The room was mine, and the door was one I opened myself. The contacts case sat in the archive, on its shelf beside the grey dress and the seven last letters and everything my mother had built. The mark on my hand was strong and clear, my mother's sign of who I was, and nobody in the whole pack feared it now. The compact was warm in my chest, with the Great North's note and the southern note running together like two voices singing one song.Rael was at his window, feeling the eastern mountains and the compact sites and the flame basin. He called all of it mine now, out loud, every morning, and I could hear it in the bond when he said it. I got up and put on a clothes that were not a grey dress. I opened my door from the inside. Then I went out to find Thursday.Thursday in the Great North is Constance in the kitchen before dawn, feeding everyone in the compound corre
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THALIAI did not want to be alone with the last letters that night, and I did not say so out loud. I did not need to. He already knew, the way he always knew, because the bond carried it to him before the words ever came. When the lamp was low and the compound was quiet, he knocked once on my door, and I told him to come in, and he sat down on the edge of the bed. Neither of us said, this is the night after the last letters. The room said it for us.The bundle lay on the table with the ribbon tied around it again, exactly the way Heloise had left it, and it looked the same as it had before I read it, except that everything about it was different. I had read the letters now. They lived inside me."She hoped the food was good," I said."Yes," he answered."That was in the very first one," I told him. "I want you to know that the food is very good.""Constance," he said, and a small smile touched his mouth."Constance," I agreed. "And she hoped I had someone who made me want to stay in a
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THALIAI had been building toward the last letters for three months. I was not hiding from them. I was getting ready for them, the way you get ready for something you know is waiting for you, and that you are not quite strong enough to face. I had read all the rest. I had read the archive and the compact papers and the letters to Heloise and Elodie, and the ones sent to Saoirse's grandmother and Adair's grandmother and the families of the keepers. I had read my mother's careful voice, the voice of a scholar who planned everything.What I had not read were the last seven letters.Heloise had tied them with a faded ribbon and put them in a separate bundle inside the fifteenth box, with a note in her own handwriting that said only, when she is ready. The letter I had read in the archive weeks before had been the last of the plans. These seven were something else. These were the last of her.The morning after the ceremony, I woke very early, and I knew that today was the day. Rael was alr
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RAELRael went to her room at nine, as he did every night, and by now neither of them thought about it any more. It had simply become the shape of their evenings. The day's work was done, the pack was settled, the land was warm under the stone, and then there was her room, with her door that she opened from the inside, and the two of them in the special version of themselves that only lived in that room.He knocked, and she told him to come in, and he went in.She was sitting in the chair by the window with a book open on her lap that she was not reading. It was the thinking version of her, the one he had learned to know over all those months, the one that meant she was working something out and wanted him near while she did it. He sat down on the edge of the bed. Her left hand was closed in her lap, and she did not look down at it, and he noticed that, and he said nothing."Valerie," she began."Yes," he answered."Formally named," she said."Yes.""On the pack record, with Mira's ha
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THALIAMira read the papers aloud in the formal language, slowly and clearly, and every word carried across the courtyard like a stone dropped into still water. She read about the holding compound and the calling and the ritual circle. She read about the young woman who refused to help the people who held her, and she read the old word that was Valerie's new name. When she reached it, her voice softened, and I saw Valerie's hands tighten at her sides.Then it was my turn. I stepped forward and faced my sister across the little space in front of the flame basin, and I said the old word out loud, the compact's own name for what she was. The words came out of my mouth in the old language, low and warm, and they seemed to fill the whole courtyard.The flame basin answered at once. Every crack in its stone lit up with gold, one after another, in a ripple that ran all the way around the rim. The flames rose high and full, and the whole courtyard hummed with the deep, warm note of the compac
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THALIAThe ceremony for Valerie was Mira's idea, and nobody who knew Mira was surprised. Mira had a gift for knowing which moments needed to be made official, and which ones were already real and only needed a ceremony to say so out loud. She came to find me three days before, standing in the archive doorway with a leather folder pressed against her chest and her chin raised."The support bloodline should be on the formal record," Mira announced, without any greeting at all."I think so too," I answered, looking up from the table."With the name Valerie chose for herself," Mira went on, and her eyes narrowed slightly. "Which is not the word amplifier.""No," I agreed, smiling. "It is not.""Then what is the word?" she asked.I told her the old word, the one that means the one who holds the bearer upright. Mira was quiet for a moment, and I saw her lips move as she tried the sound of it in her head."That is much better than amplifier," she decided at last."Valerie thinks so too," I t
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RAEL’S POV“Witchcraft?” She stuttered, her face going pale instantly, before she started coughing and awkwardly swallowing her saliva.“Pardon?”I stepped back, the movement sharp and predatory. I refused to meet her gaze again; those gold eyes were too bright, too haunting for a killer. Don’t get
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THALIA’S POVIt had taken a whole night before the realization dawned fully on me—I had murdered two people and fled the scene. The blood on my hands had been washed away, but the phantom weight of it remained, pressing into my skin like lead. And what I had hoped on settling before dawn with my au
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THALIA’S POVThey say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but in the Great North, if you don’t judge a wolf by its eyes, you’re already a corpse. I suppose the werewolf hierarchy is a real eye-opener, though for someone like me, the view is usually from the bottom of a shallow grave.This was
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THALIA’S POVMy heart squeezed painfully in my chest, and I felt like a bird trapped in a cage made of my own ribs as I stuttered, “I… you, sir—”His gaze didn’t falter for a single second. He stood there looking like a god of war, tall and terrifying, while he growled, “I won’t repeat myself anymor
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