The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2)

by Eliot Schrefer

Not a big deal, but each time I do it I’m reminded that I’m the only human in existence who can carry a child. It’s my least favorite feeling.

That’s terrifying

hoi polloi

everything is a wicked reference if you try hard enough

I’d have done the same if faced with the awful prospect of me.

ughhh what is happening???

Owl is connected to Dad, because she’s his sister.

This is hilarious out of context

Food passes through my lips without taste or texture. I swallow it. I feed the organism.

jesus christ this guy is crazy as hell

I’m just doing what I’ve been told to do.

BY WHOM?!!!!!!

The presence of yarrow was part of why I chose to retreat here.

Awww

I recognized him as the sometimes concubine of the president,

And I oop…

I start to cry. Quietly, so my brother won’t hear me and come kill us.

fuck

one warbot can reasonably take on an army of humans (not that either country is putting organic bodies on the front lines anymore).

huh!

adding Ambrose Cusk to the long line of would-be rebels whose executions were livestreamed by their country at war.

Somehow simultaneously futuristic and timely

Devon Mujaba sabotaged the zygotes.

Poor Yarrow... OMG POOR OWL

The earth starts to spin under my body; probably an effect of the WakeSleep.

and I'm "probably" straight... puh-leez

We go quiet. “I don’t think that was anything,” I say. “Except an owl, maybe.”

Aw Owl

She might actually look remorseful. Or not. It’s hard to tell such things with a sheep.

Classic Kodiak

Sheep huffs in complaint.

My favorite character.

“Our ridiculous pet.” Sheep looks up from where she’s knocking her empty oatmeal container against a rock,

Ugh my bestie, Sheep, just gets it

I should offer something fruity about myself, maybe, to make him feel better? “I know how to knit,” I finally say.

Not fruity lmaoo

And one last part of me wants to say this thing, this most important thing that binds people, isn’t only about sex, but you talk about it like it is.

Demisexual king

“It might not be Alexander the Great’s, but it’s still useful,” I say. Ambrose snorts.

What a crazy fact about Ambrose that I always forget... Alexander the Great's son... whoo-ee

If I’m about to die, I’m going to hold those hands of his at least once.

*loving emoji*

It arrives. The brightness between us.

Are you fucking joking... My... My emotions... I need to sit down... *Is already sitting*

The light reflected in their eyes looks orange. Maybe they’re near a fire.

jfc

The sound of a baby malevor’s breathing.

OMG is this like this side of the story's Sheep??

It felt like we traveled lifetimes on our escape last night,

For me too because I took a few days to read that last part and now we're back

Father—Father!—is crying into his lover’s hand. “You’re alive. I was so scared.”

I don't know if this is my FAVORITE version of them because I fell in love with a few versions back in book one... but they are just so beautiful together

I release her and she runs a few paces away before turning to me, grunting her shock. I chuckle.

She is!!!!! She's Sheep 2.0!!! Mama fix her amygdala alrEADY

and the brightness between us eradicates every detail of him

DAMN GOT ME AGAIN

Will report back on how Kodiak’s blanket turns out.

😏