Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine

Author:Rachel Caine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

EPHEMERA

Excerpt from the personal journal of Niccolo Santi. Not yet available in the Codex.

I sit with my journal and my pen, and I find nothing to say. I look back on other pages, and I understand why; every page is full of Christopher. The things he does that annoy me, or amuse me, or delight me. The joy of sitting together in the quiet between missions, when we still had those to look forward to together. He has always been a sharp ball of thorns, and difficult to hold on to, but that has never stopped me from loving him.

In the silence where he should be, I hear nothing.

I wait.

I try to lock away the rage I feel for this stupid Brightwell boy and his stupid plan that has sent the man I love into another dark hole in the ground, endless nights of fear and pain and anguish. There is nothing in the world worth Christopher’s suffering. Not to me. Let the Library rise or fall; it only matters to me if he is alive, and safe, and sane.

If that is heresy, then I will be happy to die a heretic.

If he comes broken out of that place—and he must come out of it—then I will take every bruise, every hurt, out on Jess Brightwell.

God help me if this takes Christopher from me for good.

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