Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel José Older

Author:Daniel José Older [Daniel José Older]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780545953016
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2020-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

Now she was sure she was dreaming when she awoke again, this time into a nightmarish world stricken with sharp blasts of pain every time she moved and then even more pain when she winced. And, as she blinked awake with a moan, two dozen half skulls turned their worried (half worried?) expressions toward her.

A bright searing burn ripped through her as she tried to scuttle away from the deathly horde.

M’ija, a voice said, but it wasn’t Death, it wasn’t a whisper within. It was her father. A man stepped forward, half skulled like the rest of them. No, it was paint. Why had they all so grimly decorated themselves?

She shook her head, tried to squint, blink away tears, and more blistering anguish erupted.

It’s me, Santo Colibrí said. You saved us, my child.

Why … She tried to finish her sentence, but only gasps of pain came out.

Come, let me give her some more ointment, hm? another familiar voice said. The poor dear.

How …

You’ve been asleep for almost three weeks, m’ija, her father said. The rebellion has begun. We paint our faces like this in your honor, because of what you did.

I don’t … “understand,” she was going to say, but then, very suddenly, she did understand. The price that Death had spoken of. She didn’t have to reach up and touch her face to realize that half of it had been seared clean away in the blast of light she’d unleashed to fend off her sisters. She didn’t need a mirror — why would she? At least twelve reflections of herself were looking right back at her.

Somehow, even through the pain that screamed inside her with each tiny movement, Lucera looked up at the family that had always been there for her, had saved her life and now were saving it again, those that would die to protect her and those she would die to protect too, and she smiled.

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