The Abandoned Luna's Return
It looked like marble, cold and unyielding, and every time the white touched a new patch of his skin, Silas flinched as if he were being erased while still alive.
"Don't look at me like that, Elara," he whispered, his voice sounding thinner, as if it were being played through a speaker with a dying battery.
"I'm not going to let them have you," I said, my voice cracking. I reached out to touch his face, but my own hand stopped mid-air. My skin was flickering. Beneath the tan and the scars of my new physical body, the "Stitch" was humming. I was a hybrid now—a girl made of meat and bone, but held together by the same code that ran the stars. I could feel the electricity of the desert buzzing