Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence;

Author:Mark Lawrence;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC
Published: 2019-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

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TIME NEEDS SOMETHING to be counted against. Nona had nothing except for the slowly building pressure as the devils made their return to the ice beneath her. The shipheart’s presence had driven them from it and now they reclaimed what was theirs. She felt their malice like tiny claws, trying to slice a way under her skin.

“I won’t die here.” Numb fingers fumbled a second dagger from her belt and turned to begin the climb back to the tunnel. She would rather stagger back into the Corridor half-dead and fight the Noi-Guin than face insanity alone in the freezing dark.

She reached, stabbed, and hauled herself up. With no light she might miss the entrance entirely but trying would at least warm her a little.

What followed was a long, blind nightmare of stabbing, straining, and slipping. Nona had no idea how many minutes or hours she laboured at it, how many times she slid back, how many times she cursed the Ancestor. She even called upon her father’s ghost for help.

“I can’t . . .” She hung on the ice wall, so steep it was near vertical. The strength had left her arms and although she could no longer feel her grip on either knife she knew that it was weakening. Her hands looked shockingly pale. “I can’t.” No hope remained to her. Not even the hope of an easy death.

She looked again at her hands, hardly feeling she still owned them. Both were tinged with violet. “How?” How could she see them?

Nona turned her head and there, far below her, Zole stood at the edge of the shaft into which she had fallen, the shipheart in her hands.

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