One Word Kill (Impossible Times, #1)

by Mark Lawrence

Pain can stay the same while you change around it. And, like a thumb of constant size, what it blocks out depends on how close it gets to you. At arm’s length a thumb obscures a small fragment of the day. Held close enough to your eye it can blind you to everything that matters, relegating the world to a periphery.

‘More bonkers than general relativity?’ Mia took the book from the death grip I had it in. ‘The twins paradox is hard to beat.’ With a sigh, I relaxed. She was one of us!

Mia was part of our group now. And those ties run deep. You don’t abandon a party member. Even if it means going to a party.

‘So we’re literally changing the course of history?’ Demus shrugged. ‘Over a girl?’ ‘There’s a better reason?’