Blood Wisp by Sarina Langer

Author:Sarina Langer [Langer, Sarina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sparrow Books Publishing
Published: 2021-11-17T05:00:00+00:00

Yua sat on her roof and hugged her legs to herself. There was no sign of Newai, so she hugged herself harder. Aza had gone to get food. Yua was grateful to be alone, but she could have done with the cat’s warmth.

She had always known that she was dangerous, but she had hoped that more knowledge would somehow help. Aza’s insistence and stories of Krymistis had let her hope that maybe, if she knew enough, practiced enough, she might control the darkness in her veins, but she now knew that the opposite was the case. She wasn’t just dangerous; she was the danger itself. No amount of knowledge would change that. Throughout history, there had been a few attempts to study the Mists, and none of them had ended well. In all those ill-fated attempts, someone had brought a part of the Mists into their world and let it loose. This time, it wasn’t loose but imprisoned inside her, and the more Yua dwelled on that, the less she knew how to contain it.

How could she, a Midokan girl without magical ability, control something as inherently evil as the Mists? O-yu expected too much from her. She’d never been religious, and every new piece of information solidified her conviction that the Great Dragon was a myth. It didn’t matter, though, because Kei expected too much too. Aza expected too much. Yua herself, who had known better deep down, had dared hope for too much.

She had killed so many when she was five. The Mists had leaked out of her and controlled her rather than the other way around—that had to be what had happened. She hadn’t made any progress since. If she concentrated, she felt the evil crawling through her veins. She felt it near her heart, her mind, ready to grip both if she gave it half an opportunity.

Who would die then?

She pulled her legs into her chest, and a sob escaped her. Her parents must have hated her to have done this. Had they worshipped the Dark One? Had her entire family?

Had they expected the same of her?

She had no idea how she could ever hope to win this, but she knew that she would rather die than let something so evil control her.

Ignoring her Shadow all these years had accomplished one thing: no one else had died or been hurt. But didn’t she matter at all? She hadn’t been happy. She had been a scared prisoner in her room as well as in her own body. Yua thought that had to count for something. Even so, she couldn’t value her happiness above everyone else’s lives. They mattered too. Perhaps they mattered more since there were more of them and only one of her.

She could either go on as she had been, continue to protect everyone else through inaction but be miserable, or she could risk practicing control one day at a time, one thread of sanity at a time, but put too many people at risk who wouldn’t even know the danger they were in.

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