The Glass Spare by DeStefano Lauren

Author:DeStefano, Lauren [DeStefano, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy, General, Romance, Royalty
ISBN: 9780062491336
Google: -p0FDgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01N27P6R5
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-10-24T06:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

ON THE SIXTH DAY OF October, the Southern Isles came into view. Wil was awake and lying backward on her bed so that she could watch them through her window.

Loom was under the unspoken impression that he could keep her here for a week. In one week exactly, she would turn sixteen. Loom had no way of knowing it, of course. Wil had nearly forgotten this herself.

She lowered her data goggles over her eyes, making everything orange. But through fog and distance, they could not tell her the names of any of the cities. The land was a faded purple mark against the sky, hardly real—markings an artist had tried to erase from a map.

The ship sailed alongside the isles without ever seeming to approach. Were they passing them entirely? Loom hadn’t been forthcoming about his plans, given that he was banished. Zay even less so. Zay kept her distance except to glare and grumble.

Even as Wil tried to plot her course of escape, the sight of land was a relief. After a week of crystallizing the leaves of small plants, her body was restless, begging her for a greater release, and the strain had taken its toll on her stamina. In the last leg of the trip she’d been listless, fighting to stay awake, forcing down rations that tasted more and more like glue.

With each bite of rations and overripe fruit, she thought of the photographs of Lavean delicacies in Owen’s encyclopedia. Roasted boar, seared gazelle, vegetables glazed in honey and clove oils, potatoes shredded, balled, and deep fried with herbs. She wished Loom could have packed something like that.

She had used meals to her advantage, though. Loom had begun to let down his guard, mistaking her weariness for amenability. Maybe he didn’t trust her, but she could almost believe that he liked her, and that would make slipping away from him in a crowded port easier.

Watching the mountains through the fog, she was fantasizing about the South’s indigenous plants. Large fronds and earthy tubers fat as organs; the relief of crystallizing them would make her shiver as it rolled through her blood like a wave. She hated it as much as she craved it.

To busy herself, she slipped into fresh clothes—a set of deep-violet satins marred by gold vines. The wide collar slumped to the side, revealing her shoulder no matter how many times she tried to fit it back in place. There were trousers to match, with a drawstring waist and legs that billowed out and buried her bare feet. The closet was filled with beautiful satin trousers and matching tops, embellished with gleaming threads. As the ship rocked, they fell against each other like empty bodies. Reds and yellows and a blue more brilliant than the sea itself.

Then she made her way onto the deck. After the hallucinations brought on by the sleep serum, Loom had stopped locking the door, which caused a heated argument between him and Zay that went on for nearly an hour, until the shouting awoke Ada.

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