Asunder by Jodi Meadows

Author:Jodi Meadows
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780062060785
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I was both relieved and disappointed that he didn’t have the same impulse. Or he had better restraint.

Sighing, he released my hand. “I’m still not sure you won’t vanish if I’m not holding you.” He glanced at my fingers, now curled on my knee. He started to reach again, but hesitated. Maybe he did want to crawl on top of me after all. “But you just got back, and there are so many things we need to do, which means anything I want will wait. And whatever happened to you, it must have been terrible.”

The odor of Meuric’s nest, the blackness with weepers, and Janan’s voice by my ear. My breath came like a stutter.

Sam tucked my damp hair behind my ear. “Can you tell me?”

“You don’t want to know,” I whispered, hating myself for all the terrible things I was about to make him feel. “But it’s important that you do, anyway.”

He waited.

“First, you have to know that for a little while, you knew exactly where I was. You were going to go inside the temple with me.”

“That’s not possible.”

“It is. I had a key.” But it was gone now. Had the stranger given it to Deborl? What would they do with it? “We were going to go in together. You insisted, and I didn’t want to go by myself. But Stef spotted you and I had to go in alone, before I lost the chance. It’s just, Janan plays with your memories. You aren’t allowed to know certain things, so you forget them, and you don’t question inconsistencies because none of you notice them.”

“That sounds crazy,” he whispered. “We remember everything, from the very first lifetime.”

“You don’t.” I touched his hand. “You don’t remember everything. And that’s not the only thing.” I told him what Janan did to souls like mine.

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