Fear Me Not (The EVE Chronicles) - Plot & Excerpts
The Lovers Gutters don’t have elaborate memorial services, or funerals. To Gutters, death is just a release, a freeing of the spirit. The Illuminator who was killed has her picture in a hall alcove, a small table laden with candles and flowers where people can say goodbye to her physical self in their own way. Her EVE boyfriend stands in front of it listlessly, looking above it. Away from it. His eyes are sunken and no one has the guts to meet his hollow gaze. Even if it was a teenage romance, it meant something to him. Even if she was a lizard alien on the inside, she meant something to him. It’s my turn to pretend to be drained.Yulan’s supposed to operate on me. But instead, I just spend the night in his office, like I’m recuperating. It’s a farce, but it helps keep up appearances, as Yulan’s so fond of saying.I wake up in the middle of the night - it’s dark outside. In the next room a single desk lamp is lit. Yulan bends over papers, checking them off, flipping through and back again.
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