A Theory of Dreaming (A Study in Drowning, #2)

by Ava Reid

(I found my deathless death in dreams

The storyteller is a liar, but the story he tells is true. —from the diaries of Angharad Myrddin, 194 AD

Swear fealty to no cause but knowledge.

Outside, the snow began to skim like white-winged insects against the window glass.

Was it something that lived within him, like a pearl ossifying with every bitten-back word, every hot flash of anger that he couldn’t let himself speak aloud?

“It’s always a tragedy when young men die in an old man’s war.”