Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
HERE LIE STORIES NEVER FINISHED,
WORDS NEVER SPOKEN,
LIVES NEVER LIVED.
My stomach twisted.
The paper under my boots shifted as the others stepped down behind me.
More pages fell, landing on shoulders, in hair, on the backs of hands.
One stuck to Jax’s jacket. He peeled it off and squinted at it.
“‘The dragon decided he was tired of being a metaphor,’” he read aloud. “Okay, whoever wrote that? I want to buy them a drink. Or a therapist.”
His attempt at humor landed like a thrown rock in wet sand.