A Veil of Ash and Glass
Lexy Estoestaoff with her headwith an l on her foreheadoff with her head bookshe had the human look of a domesticated animal
Skin the color of water left too long in a bowl: thin, gray, stretched - Eyes black from lid to lid, glossy and hungry.
Three more unpeeled themselves from the shadows behind it: one climbing down a trunk like a spider; one stepping backward out of a tree as if the bark were a curtain; one crouched low, fingers dug into the soil.
“Stay,” she whispered to Umbra.
He answered with a growl so low it felt like it rattled her ribs.
The foremost creature tilted its head.
“You called,” it said.
“I didn’t,” she said.
“Yessss…” another answered from her left, voice wet and amused. “Glasss and blood and windowssss… crying. You ssssang. We heard.”
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