The Rogue Queen's Rise
I look down at the cord on my wrist, then at the knife still sitting on the workbench where she set it, plain and unglamorous and exactly what it is.
"You're saying build a pack out of people who've spent their whole lives learning to disappear."
"I'm saying you're already the only person qualified to lead one."
Outside, the light's starting to go gray at the edges of the bay door, evening coming on fast the way it does out here with nothing tall enough to slow it down, and for the first time since I stood in Marcus's kitchen and said the sentence that ended everything, I don't feel like I'm still falling.
I feel like I've landed somewhere, even if I don't yet know what the ground is going t