Winterspell
“He had abandoned them—why? He should have attacked them, now that they were vulnerable. He should have completed his mission. Was that not what soldiers did?
“Clara?” came Nicholas’s strained voice.
Blood covered him, and ash; he leaned hard against her for balance, and if she hadn’t been so afraid, she might have enjoyed the fact that for all his boasting of “agility under duress,” she was the stronger one in this moment.
“The train,” he said. “What happened to the train?”
She almost told him ...the truth, but something stopped her, an internal voice that sounded suspiciously like Godfather’s.
The train had exploded for a reason, but until Clara knew that reason, she couldn’t risk Nicholas’s thinking she was mad. A mad girl was not worth helping.
But perhaps she was mad. Her fingertips tingled as though they had been frozen and were now thawing out. The air around her remained lightly charged; whatever force had swept over them had not gone far.
“One of the faeries discharged something,”MoreLess
“Clara?” came Nicholas’s strained voice.
Blood covered him, and ash; he leaned hard against her for balance, and if she hadn’t been so afraid, she might have enjoyed the fact that for all his boasting of “agility under duress,” she was the stronger one in this moment.
“The train,” he said. “What happened to the train?”
She almost told him ...the truth, but something stopped her, an internal voice that sounded suspiciously like Godfather’s.
The train had exploded for a reason, but until Clara knew that reason, she couldn’t risk Nicholas’s thinking she was mad. A mad girl was not worth helping.
But perhaps she was mad. Her fingertips tingled as though they had been frozen and were now thawing out. The air around her remained lightly charged; whatever force had swept over them had not gone far.
“One of the faeries discharged something,”MoreLess
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