The Mime Order (The Bone Season Book 2)

by Samantha Shannon

And what I’ve seen is tyranny built on a lie – the lie that clairvoyants are unnatural and dangerous. That we should despise ourselves enough to give in to extinction. They ask us to hand ourselves over to be tortured and executed, and they call it clemency.’

While Scion had sold us to the Rephs, our own leaders had sold us to Scion. That was the grey market.

In the end, loyalty will outweigh greed. When they have hope.’ ‘Is hope enough?’ ‘Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us.’

‘I know the syndicate must always come first,’ he said, his voice very soft. ‘I will be there to meet you in the interludes, Paige Mahoney.’

‘Me, you and Chelsea, all tearing ourselves to shreds for bad men. It’s not easy, being a mollisher.’

‘I turned up on time to see you fight Binder. That took some real brass, Paige.’ Ivy breathed out. ‘I forgive you for working for him. Can you forgive me for not working out what Rags was doing?’ ‘I already have, Ivy.’

There had to be something better than this. Something worth the price we had paid. I was tired of quaking in the shadow of the anchor, of fighting for survival in the shadows – every minute, every hour, every day of our short lives.

In my spirit form, where my vision was no longer fixed to my unsighted eyes, London was a galaxy of tiny lights – millions of minds, bound together by a web of arcane knowledge.

I will destroy your doctrine of tyranny, I told them in my head. I will cut the strings from the limbs of the puppets.