Burning Roses by S. L. Huang

Author:S. L. Huang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

* * *

“I suppose it had started to feel pointless anyway,” Rosa said to Hou Yi. “I was changing. She changed me.”

“Love can do that,” Hou Yi agreed.

“Hunting had been my all. And every kill, Goldie egged me on, toasted me in stolen wine. It had become my reason for living. Until it wasn’t anymore, and I started to see … I started to look at myself with new eyes.”

With Mei’s eyes.

* * *

She’d stood there one day, Goldie laughing at the bear they had cornered and killed, and as he lay dying, he turned back into a man, his human eyes filled with fear. “No mercy. They all said you … no mercy,” he choked, his eyes rolling first over Goldie’s pale form and then Rosa’s dark one. “The ice queen … Ice White and Blood Red…”

Blood Red, they all called her, Rosa knew. Those whispers in the dark, the men and grundwirgen who rightfully feared her. The name she’d promised the dragon she would know, on the other end of Rosa’s rifle.

But now all she could see was Mei’s face as she took a scarlet blossom out of her hair and offered it to Rosa, laughing, saying, “Have one of your kin.”

Not Blood Red, she wanted to say. Rose Red.

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