Impossible Creatures

by Katherine Rundell

He told me, hope is another word for delusion.” His voice rasped, and his face convulsed, a grunt of pain. “Hope is a little lie that the powerless use to comfort themselves.”

WITH YOU SO MUCH IS LOST. WE WON’T FORGET. And beneath it: HERE LIES GELIFEN, THE LAST AND BEST GRIFFIN.

“Listen. I need you to tell people this; I need you, when you get back, to tell them: the brutality is terrible. And yes: the chaos is very great. But tell them: greater than the world’s chaos are its miracles.”