Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
The shelves were jammed with books of every size and color, their spines unlabelled, pages fluttering in a wind I couldn’t feel.
She was perfectly poised on a narrow ledge halfway up, one hand on a shelf, the other on her hip, like this was a balcony in some opera and not a graveyard of my failures.
“Let it go, little writer,” she called down, voice carrying easily over the soft, hungry sounds of pages sinking. “The words only hurt you.”
The ghosts of my characters ring the grave.
The girl from “Salt & Silence” watched the ink swallow the first draft of her story with a hurt expression that had nothing to do with sea‑salt and everything to do with me.