The Dawn Chorus: A Bone Season novella (The Bone Season)

by Samantha Shannon

was Underqueen of the Scion Citadel of London. I could get across a corridor.

‘Perhaps folly is catching, Paige Mahoney.’

I turned into a blade around him, always quick to cut.

‘See me now,’ he said. ‘I will always carry the scars, and the memories, but I regained my strength. I found myself again. So will you.’

‘I am looking at you, Paige Mahoney. I see a warrior who sacrificed herself to a brutal enemy for a better world. And despite all the wrong that was done to her, all the pain and humiliation she endured, she did not speak one word to betray the revolution. She did not condemn her friends. And yet, as always, she is blind to her own courage.’