The Witnessing of Matlyn Wren by Jennifer Lynn January

Author:Jennifer Lynn January [January, Jennifer Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jennifer Lynn January
Published: 2016-04-26T05:00:00+00:00

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The man in the gray suit stood before him, still and waiting like a sentinel. The chaos and storm of bullets that had surrounded him vanished, leaving them both in a quiet space that seemed to exist just outside of everything else. Samuel had never seen such a contradiction before, a space inside of space that was both shimmering with light and utterly dark. He blinked and tried to stitch together his mental facilities long enough to accept what had passed only moments before … his death.

With his pale hands clasped together in front of him, the man in gray cleared his throat, drawing Samuel’s attention. He reached out, palms up, and offered Samuel his hands.

Samuel’s eyes cut to the stranger’s hands and then back to his oblivion-black eyes and made no move at all.

The suit stepped forward, nodded slowly, and gave a simple, but reassuring smile. Hands still outstretched, he held Samuel’s unsure gaze and waited.

With shaky hands still vibrating from the reverberation from the gunshot, Samuel placed his hands in the dark stranger’s.

“You are Omen now,” the suit spoke, his voice deep and another world away.

And just like the complicated progress of water passing through a membrane, knowledge seeped into Samuel. He knew the kick and rhythm of a Story and felt it grow in his veins stronger than his own pulse. The searing pain of Witnessing lit his body on fire for the first time, and he watched in amazement and horror as the first thirty-two years of his life worked its way under his skin. Black words bubbled to the surface, mapping his life in moments and small stretches of time.

When the pain ceased, he knew what he’d become and what the next one hundred years would bring. Samuel had become Death’s siren call, and for a hundred years to come, he would taste Death on his tongue like ash and bitter wine; never again would there be sweetness.

A hundred years of death and pain for the lives he’d taken seeking approval from an impossible man.

When the slim, gray-suited man loosened his grip on Samuel’s trembling hands, he took one fluid step backward and watched as Samuel buckled under the weight of the next hundred years.

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