Dissension by Stacey Berg

Author:Stacey Berg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-02-29T16:00:00+00:00

It was one of the captured images fished out of a stack of prints that brought Hunter up short, fingers pressing hard to the table to keep her motionless while her vision blurred and her throat tightened around a hard lump. She forced her face to stillness, but Lia noticed anyway, forehead creasing with concern as she reached across the table to slide the page out from under Hunter’s nerveless fingers. Her lips pursed in a soundless ooh of dismay. “I’m so sorry, Echo. I wish you could have found them.”

“It doesn’t matter,” she said to Lia. They hadn’t discussed the children since the day Hunter had failed to bring them back.

“It does matter,” Lia chided gently. “You must have cared about them very much.”

Hunter stared unseeing at the capture. “I taught them what I could while time permitted, that was all.” The loss rate has been acceptable, she remembered saying once. Ela stared at her impassively. Tana. They didn’t say whether they would still agree. Her shoulders twitched in a spasm she forced into a shrug. “What happened after that wasn’t up to me.”

“Oh, Echo.” Lia’s golden eyes brimmed. “Don’t you even know when something hurts?”

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