The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

Author:N. K. Jemisin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy - Epic, Fantasy fiction, Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy, General, Gods, Epic, Science Fiction And Fantasy, Epic fiction
ISBN: 9780316043915
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2010-02-25T08:00:00+00:00

It is a private moment; I am an intruder. I loosen invisible fingers, and let this dream slip through them and away.

* * *

I felt the poor sleep keenly when I dragged myself awake well into the next day. The inside of my head felt muddy, congealed. I sat on the edge of the bed with my knees drawn up, gazing through the windows at a bright, clear noon sky and thinking, I am going to die.

I am going to DIE.

In seven daysno, six now.

Die.

I am ashamed to admit that this litany went on for some time. The seriousness of my situation had not sunk in before; impending death had taken second place to Darrs jeopardy and a celestial conspiracy. But now I had no one yanking on my soul to distract me, and all I could think of was death. I was not yet twenty years old. I had never been in love. I had not mastered the nine forms of the knife. I had nevergods. I had never really lived, beyond the legacies left to me by my parents: ennu, and Arameri. It seemed almost incomprehensible that I was doomed, and yet I was.

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