The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee

Author:Wen-yi Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zando

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A CASKET SITS WITH NO ONE TO MOURN IT but children.

But that is not the start of this night. No, the night starts when you push into your sister’s unlocked room, and tell her you are going to the grave. You would not call Zachary Tai your friend, but you watched him grow up as a younger brother. So you have decided, as you always do, to take everyone’s grief into your own hands.

You are strong, Trisha Chang, but there is a point where even mountains break.

The night they give Zachary’s body to the ground, however, you can still bear your burden. You manage the feat of taking your sister somewhere she does not want to go—you tell her it is for your sake, and she stands, but you know it must also be for hers. You make her put on a jacket and you steal silently outside to find Wren Carver slipping down the tree that leans toward her window. Your sister is surprised, but while she was hiding away, you were already making plans with all those you thought should care.

So you climb into the cemetery to find Zachary’s brother and Mason Kane already there, still as the angels around them. Mason tucks Wren’s head into his shoulder as she falls into him, but you notice how little he seems to feel it. You notice everything. We are so alike, in that way. You see, as I do: Alex Tai, not long for this town. Wren Carver, always prepared, breaking down. Mason Kane, always righteous, looking crucified. And your sister, by your side, not running to her friends as she should. They have secrets you cannot reach, and that is our difference.

How will you fix them now? How will you mend these new broken people? You will never be enough. You were not even meant to be. And the presence of another watcher disrupts me, Trisha Chang, distracts needing ears from my voice. I cannot have that. You are difficult to reach, by blood or by temperament or by your attachments, but not impossible. Not with the patience of years, of chipping away night after night when your eyes do not see. You see, to open a rock neatly, you must first score it in lines. Down, and down, and down again. So you did not even notice, when you stepped out from the church of the house of our father, that you were already ready to crack.

Were we not taught, in drastic times, that the firstborns must be taken?

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