Song of the Abyss by Makiia Lucier

Author:Makiia Lucier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HMH Books

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“‘Oy, lion, look here’?” Levi said incredulously. “What were you thinking, Reyna?”

It was Levi who had killed the lion. Blaise would tell Reyna of it later. Realizing the futility of bow and arrow, he had swept up the saw Blaise had dropped: Master Noah’s dreadful cranium incisor. Levi had used it, not as one would normally use such an instrument, but as a weapon, flinging it at the lion like an athlete’s disk. The saw had caught the animal at the neck, severing something important. And that was how Reyna remained alive to sit by the mainmast with Levi. Who was nowhere near grateful.

His was an angry pacing. No one paid them any attention. The deck swarmed with men woken from their sleep by the excitement on deck. They surrounded the animal, close but not too close. Blaise was with them.

Reyna tried to reason with Levi. “Your arrows weren’t working. What was I supposed to do? Watch while it ate you?”

Levi swung around to glare at her. “Yes! That exactly.”

“I’m here to bring my friends home, Captain. I can’t do that without you,” she said, suddenly quite weary. Fear and relief—both were exhausting. She wrapped her arms around her knees and pulled them close, braced for more scolding.

The fight left him. He crouched before her, then said quietly, “You frightened me. I don’t think my heart will ever beat normally again.”

“The same.” Her words were muffled, spoken into her knees.

Levi reached for her. His hand grazed her cheek. A second only. Hamish called Levi over. The captain’s counsel was sorely needed. No one had any notion of how to remove a dead lion from the ship.

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