Eclipse the Skies by Milan Maura

Author:Milan, Maura
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 32

BRINN

IT WAS LATE in the evening, and Einn had ordered Brinn to her quarters to get some rest since it was something she often forgot to do. As she lay on her cot, she undid the latch of her holowatch, now linked to a Dead Space private network to mask her location from anyone who was searching for her. But with her family and Ia dead, she didn’t know who would be. Besides, she didn’t need to be connected to do what she wanted to do.

She dragged her finger against the touch screen. The watch illuminated in the surrounding darkness. She opened her photos folder, quickly selecting the one she wanted. A holodisplay flickered in the space before her, like an apparition appearing on its regular haunting hour.

The photo was over a year old by now. It was the one they took the day of the Provenance Day parade, the same day Ia was captured. In the image, Brinn’s eyes were bright with wonder, and Faren was looking at her, his lips upturned, caught in the middle of a laugh.

It was painful to see her brother’s face, but it hurt even more to see her own. So she set her eyes on Faren, the one person she missed the most in this universe. Brinn always had so much to tell him. So much.

“Hey, Fare,” she said. But those were all the words she could manage now.

She left the rest of her words in the tight confines of her throat, swallowed them, so they crowded up all the space in her chest. No matter what she’d tell him about why she was doing what she was doing, she knew what he’d say.

She got out of bed, leaving her brother to haunt her space without her.

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