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She felt their eyes, all those executioners.
She noticed her own steadiness and felt a dim love for herself.
They believed this the way they believed in the sun and moon and the air they breathed.
This was Melancholia Bishop’s final fight.
You’ve cleaved through so many,”
For the first time in so long, she wanted to live.
“I am very tired,” the other woman said. “Do you understand?”
“I’m not going to let you live. You are going to choose to live.
It occurred to her then that this god was a woman like her.
Her eyes were brown, beautiful, tired, and yet they widened for a moment as she looked at Thurwar, her killer.
WholeMarket™ was a family brand.
She was a collection of death and vitality.
grafted to her bones,
They hated him. But if the match went his way he’d be an all-around favorite.
Staxxx’s eyes glowed with a kindness that made Thurwar feel something like
Bear’s heavy body bounced off the ground that he understood he’d been separated from his right leg.
Then elation, honest, raw joy, swallowed the whole. They stood up from their seats.
She kissed his face several times, then slit his throat.[*1]
When she was done, Bear looked like he’d been pulled from a woodchipper.
Almost thirty-five months.
Chain-Gang was about to be easily accessible on standard stream spaces.
Mari, who had just lost her father, the man known as Sunset Harkless, one of the most famous Links in the world,
In some sick irony, the deadlier she proved herself to be, the fewer precautions
Everybody was looking for the same thing in a lot of different ways.
She was now officially the third-longest-lasting participant of the CAPE program ever,
“What’s it like to be the hottest fucking woman on the planet?” Micky Wright had asked after she’d crushed the skull of a woman from Tennessee,
she could not say to the people she was ashamed of her success, of the very fact of her continued existence.
with thirty-two wins, twenty-three closed-casket finishes.
left knee, her problem knee,
you are officially the youngest Link ever! Congratulations!”
Like a tree splitting in half.
They screamed her name like they owned her.
Five years I ain’t heard my voice
Like my sound will stain his walls with something he can’t scrub out.
The value of each Blood Point is one one-thousandth of one cent.
“The current sequence of rankings is as follows: Rookie, Survivor, Cusp, Reaper, Harsh Reaper, Colossal, Grand Colossal.
All the currency I might earn by killing the best of ’em.
They call it cold blood. But when the trigger pulled, it all heat. Chest fire.
She hated what she was, but she loved what she could do.
People wanted to see people killed by other people, not snake bites.