Compilation Of Short Stories
“Sanguis et speculum, animam pro corpore, noctem pro veritate.”
Blood and glass, soul for body, night for truth.
The world did not spin. It folded.
Ava felt a sudden, shocking coolness. The constant, humming ache of need at the base of her spine, the engine of her existence vanished. In its place was a profound and unsettling quiet. She looked down. Her hands were longer, paler, the fingers slender and elegant. She felt contained. The power she was used to was gone, replaced by a different kind of potential, a liquid flexibility in her limbs, a sharp, analytical clarity in her mind. She was in Riven’s body.