Ann Aguirre by Enclave Razorland 01

Author:Enclave Razorland 01 [Razorland 01, Enclave]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy & Magic, Young Adult, Action & Adventure, Dystopian, Urban Fantasy
Published: 2012-08-30T20:29:08+00:00

She was tall and graceful, with a white skin, red hair, and black eyes, which had a red fire in them. She was straight and strong, but now and then would fall bent together, shudder, and sit for a moment with her head turned over her shoulder, as if the wolf had got out of her mind onto her back.

"What do you have there?" Fade asked.

I almost hid it from him, and then with a burst of shocking relief, I remembered I didn't have to. Wordless, I held the book out to him. He looked at it, and his hands were as reverent as mine had been. He read faster than me, and when he finished that first page, his gaze met mine, glazed with awe.

"We'll take it," I said. "It doesn't weigh much."

He slipped the book into my bag and went back to work. By dark, we had enough clean water to last us a few days. Secretly, I feared leaving this place because I'd gotten used to these two rooms. Inside didn't scare me. Outside, that enormous, monstrous sky hung over everything, and the size of it made me want to hide.

But there was something different about the dark this time. I took off my glasses and stared up. A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.

I didn't let him see how terrified I was. Instead I geared up as if this were nothing more than a routine patrol. I checked my weapons and our supplies; I shouldered my bag with the resolve of a Huntress. I could handle night.

But you're not a Huntress. You're just a girl with six scars.

At least Fade had them too. Maybe I'd been cast out of my tribe, but I wasn't alone. That made all the difference. If I'd been sent Topside on my own, I'd have already given up. It was simply too different from what I knew. But his calm resolve made me believe we might someday see the green land promised in his father's stories. If we didn't, it would be because it didn't exist, not because we hadn't tried.

As I stepped outside, a boom sounded, practically shaking the ground itself. I flattened myself against the building. While I cowered, water spilled down, like the pipes in the enclave, but a hundred times more powerful. It soaked me to the bone in no time, and I stood frozen in it, face upturned.

"Don't worry. It's rain." Fade stood close enough for me to feel his heated breath against my ear. A shiver rolled through me, echoed in distant crashes that shook the ground beneath my feet. He lifted his face as well, drinking it in, and I gazed at him through that silver curtain, watching as it glazed his features, all pallor and prettiness. Droplets spiked his lashes, so that I wanted to--

I shouldn't want that. Rain. Instead I focused on the other part of what I felt.

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