The Luminaries by Susan Dennard

Author:Susan Dennard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group

CHAPTER

24

Winnie doesn’t sleep that night, though she tries. Her mind is too full, her muscles too sore, her skin too puffy and bruised. She might know how to fall properly, but her body has lost all the conditioning of actually being hit by another person.

This time, when the thoughts start rampaging, she forces herself to get up and try sketching. Just a droll hand, she tells herself. Just a few bones, a few lines. It has always calmed her before. She opens a pad, picks up a 0.5-tip black pen, and begins with a soft line for the thumb …

Her fingers shake. She loses the smooth curve almost instantly.

Worse, when she closes her eyes to try to imagine all the carpal bones near the thumb, she only sees the banshee instead. Green. Glimmering. Devastating in its hideousness and beauty. The air reeks of ancient blood. Winnie’s eyes, inexplicably, start to burn.

No. She drops the pen. She can’t do this. No. In seconds, she has crawled back into bed, burrowed deep beneath her sunflower covers.

Her desk light stays on the entire night.

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