![]() ![]() She reached up to pull the clamp off and found her hands jammed against the walls of a narrow wooden chute. No way to see except by desperately rolling her eyes. She tried to look up and slammed her scalp into a metal clamp. As a girl she’d been so embarrassed by the idea of gaping like a fool while asleep that she’d trained herself to frown while she dreamed. “Who are you?” asked the voice from above. She had gone to find the Cancrioth, and the Cancrioth had found her first. She had gone to the embassy on Hara-Vijay islet in Kyprananoke. An orca with a human skull embedded in its breaching back. ![]() Spilled palm wine on burning lilacs.Īnd then the shadow ambassador had led Baru down to the secret way beneath the reef. ![]() Aminata’s marines firing the embassy, shooting the guests. Governor Love screaming as the plague carriers disemboweled themselves and smeared their gore on his face. It was real! It had all been real! The madness in the embassy, the traitor-admiral waiting for her in the dueling circle, the Kyprananoki rebels hemorrhaging black Kettling blood from their swollen eyes. ![]()
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