Sneak Peek of RIVEN!

I'm feeling a little super-secrety these days, so I thought I'd give you a taste of some of the dark, sweet evil brewing in RIVEN! Please indulge in the small tidbit below, and maybe you'll catch an important piece of information in the snippet.

Her face smoothed out, expressionlessness making her eyes stand out in the form of a mask of horror. "Is that so?" They narrowed to slits, her lips pursed as she weighed her next words. "Perhaps you have forgotten your place, Seer." "I would rather die." Lucretia pulled her hand back, fingers curling to form a fist. For a second she stood there, glowering in the scorn from a frail half-human. Her words stirred the potions of vengeance deep within Lucretia's heart, echoing with sharp precision in her ears. The girl really thought it would be so easy to defy the Queen of their world. When her mouth opened to speak, no trace of discontent was to be found. "I had hoped," she began in a lilting tone. "That it would not come to this." Reaching into one of her sleeves, she drew a long, auburn needle the length of her forearm. The needle glowed, swirls of blood red and burnt orange warring within it. "But you leave me no choice." She drew the needle back, as if in slow motion, and plunged it into one of Jessica's legs.