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The wolfless girl is the last obsidian What falls-b
I came up out of the dark roaring.The seal-chains snapped like thread. Every stake along the ridge burst out of the ground in a spray of earth and red light, and a shockwave of gold flame rolled out across the field, flattening grass, scattering men. Overhead, thousands of tiny flecks drifted down out of the night. Pale. Soft. Silver. Like snow.The hollow's ashes.I shook them off my scales. I felt lighter than I had in my life. Then I saw Garrick.He'd reached Vane. He was a stride behind him, with a long knife held low in both hands and his face set, and Vane, fighting three Moonstone bowmen at once, had his back to him. Garrick drew the blade back.I didn't think. I didn't need to. I closed the distance in one bound, and the ground cracked where I landed, and I caught Garrick's wrist in my jaws, gently, so gently, and held it. His fingers opened. The knife fell.He stared up into my face. He didn't scream.I let go and stepped back, and I let the beast fold down. It was easy, now
The wolfless girl is the last obsidian What falls-a
It ate my mother's voice first.I felt it go. One moment I was holding the black glass door in my mind, with her braid knotted across the handle and her voice behind it, saying the thing she always said, and the next there was a cold, wet nothing where the words had been. *Be brave.* Gone. I reached for the rest and it was gone too. *Eat your crusts.* Gone. I stood in the dark with my hands outstretched, and I couldn't remember the sound of her humming.*Hungry,* said the thing in the dark.It wasn't in my body. I understood that distantly. It was somewhere underneath, in the place beyond the door, where everything I'd never said and never been lay waiting. It had come in like a lantern lit in a cellar. A small pale shape. It had a child's voice, thin and high, and I knew whose it was. It had borrowed it for thirteen years.*So hungry. So cold. Please."Get out," I said.*Can't. Nothing left. Only you.*It moved closer. Where it passed, my memories went out like candles. The harvest f
The wolfless girl is the last obsidian The siege-c
The tide was turning. I felt it like a wind shifting. Stonemarch's line was buckling, the young Alpha Hesk screaming at his men to hold, and some of them, God help me, had begun to lay down their spears. Greyfen's riders wheeled and fell back toward the trees.Then a deep red light bloomed on the ridge.Rowan stood on the crest with a new staff in his hand, a long black thing, hastily carved, studded with raw gems that glowed the color of old blood. Behind him stood a dozen robed elders, each holding a short iron stake wrapped in chain. They drove them into the ground in a rough ring, and the chains lit, and the air around me thickened.Something wrapped around my back legs. Heavy. Cold. Iron. I tried to move and the ground caught me, a web of red light, binding stakes sunk deep. The scales along my flank began to burn. The beast in my chest howled.*Seals,* I thought. *Get the seals ready.*I threw my weight forward. Chains groaned. For a moment I thought I would break them. Then pai
The wolfless girl is the last obsidian The siege-b
Torches. Hundreds. Thousands, it looked like, strung in long glittering lines across every ridge, creeping down toward the palisade like lit fuses. I could hear them now. Drums. The slow, ugly tramp of a vast army coming on step by step. Under the moon the banners hung limp. Blue and silver. Green and gold. Violet. Black and white, but not Thornwood's. Stonemarch's."Fifteen hundred," said Kade, hoarse. "Maybe more.""We've got four hundred and ten," said Ilsa."Thale?""Not coming." Vane's voice was granite. "He sent word at dusk. He can't break the Accord openly. Not until..." He stopped. His jaw tightened. "He said if the girl can win it, he'll stand. If she can't, he never rode.""Pretty," Kade spat."Sensible.""*Cowardly.*""Both." Vane turned. He looked at me. The moonlight caught the gold in his eyes, and I saw something under it, fear, yes, but also a terrible calm. "You said you wanted to be told everything.""I did.""Then here it is." He took a breath. "If we hold them at
The wolfless girl is the last obsidian The siege-a
My sister weighed less than the cloak around my shoulders.That's what I kept thinking, carrying her across the yard with half the camp watching from the shadows. Nothing. A bundle of wet wool and cold bones. Her head lolled against my collarbone, and every few steps she shuddered, a long, deep, wrenching tremor that rattled through her whole body, as if something inside was shaking the bars."On the cot," Mira said. She had the tent flap held open. Her face had gone very still. "Gently. *Gently.*"I laid her down. The black veins had reached her jaw. They pulsed slowly, in time with something, and under the dim lamplight her skin looked like a candle burning from the inside."How long?"Mira laid two fingers against her throat and closed her good eye. When she opened it, she didn't look at me. "Until the moon. Perhaps less.""What is it doing?""What it was made to do. Eating." Her voice was low and flat. "It's had thirteen years of rich food. Rowan's cut it off. It's starving, and i
The wolfless girl is the last obsidian Choosing-b
It was Kade who said it. Flat. Hard. His scar twisted with it. He pushed off the wall and came toward me, and I saw his hands were shaking."Isolde doesn't keep promises," he said. "I've sat across a table from that woman for nine years. You give her the girl, and she'll take the girl, and she'll burn us anyway. She'll say you were the *price,* and prices are only the first payment." His voice cracked. "Two of my people died holding a door for you. Pell was nineteen. You don't get to walk out of that door.""Kade...""You said their names. In the yard. You said Joss and Pell and you stopped your own claws an inch from my throat." He swallowed hard. "I've been in this pack twenty years and I never saw anybody do that. Don't you dare make it mean nothing."I couldn't speak."Your mother asked me to look after you," Mira said, softly. "I said no. I was frightened. I counted grain for thirteen years rather than keep a promise to a woman I'd met once." She stepped forward and took my face
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