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And in the Dark They Are Born—Ch. 12

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Chapter 12

An hour passes.

Reyn adjusts, carefully buries her face into the pillow, back into the faint scent of cinnamon. This room belonged to a woman, she has thought for a while now, a woman that, based off of the strength of the room’s remaining scents, left not that long ago. She pictures a rugged woman with curly ...

And in the Dark They Are Born—Ch. 11

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Chapter 11

Vitri is flying—no, no, he isn’t flying, but he isn’t walking, isn’t jumping, isn’t running; he is seated but still soaring through the sky—ascending, knifing through clouds. He is atop something, some soundless creature he, because he can feel its flaps, knows to have wings. He lets his arms dangle, lets his...

And in the Dark They Are Born—Ch. 10

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Chapter 10

Navy blue briefcase in hand, Vitri sprints across the street, away from the crash, and down the alley leading to the furniture store. He’d seen it unravel from streets over, through an abandoned art gallery’s fogged windows: the motorcycle, the crash, the stumble. He’d glimpsed the masked. And he’d hurried, a...