The eastern sea, at low tide, already darker, already angrier, seethed in the shadow of the city. The young man, slim and pale, could see them both from where he stood, leaning against a casement in his father’s inner room. He could see the streets as well and hear the faint rumblings of anger an...
Then, just for her, he squirmed a little harder. The two of them were wedged into a short wooden couch with itchy wool cushions on the humanity side of the room. Of the mortals, only Rupert stood.Cyrus glanced back at the door. His mother had been pretty shaken by the interrogation of Flint. Of c...
One he knew immediately, the other was new. And easier to understand. “Prepare it,” Darius said. “Pestling potions is for your likes.” “Sir,” said the other voice. “You know nothing of him. If naming rites have already been performed, then a blood-bonding is impossible. It will be his killing. Sp...
But that meant he couldn’t scratch his calf. Splaying his toes, he put them to work, too. The lights were off, and his sister’s breathing was even. The curtains were glowing, backlit by the Golden Lady—he wondered if Dan even knew how to turn her off. The air-conditioning ...
Aunt Dotty had made up his bed while he was brushing his teeth, and Uncle Frank had shoved a swamp cooler from the basement into the round window at the end of the attic. Henry had never seen a swamp cooler before, but he assumed it was pretty much the same as the air conditioners that stuck out ...
Ahead of her, Rupert disappeared down the stairwell. Arachne had stayed behind with her spiders. They had eaten—but only cheese and a dry brick of strange bread. It would have been too hard to chew if Cyrus hadn’t dipped each bite in water. Rupert had said that it was fortified and would fortify....
Tall, damp grass traced wet lines on his cheeks. His knees and elbows sank into the soft ground. A yowl rolled through the darkness and over the cane fields. “Panther,” Cotton whispered. The white church with the stumped steeple rose into view, now pearly with moon-silver. A breeze dragged quiet ...
You must rise before the sun and become one with the night. You must possess the silence of a GHOST (not the kind that wails and thumps)… …the nimbleness of a MOUNTAIN GOAT ( but without the wool and horns)… …the strength of a GORILLA (but without the smell)… …and the bala...