Chapter 10 · free to read
She did not ask again. She had spent a year being carried, and she had decided quietly, some time ago, that it was going to stop.
Every solo blade had cracked at the seam. This one had two breaths running the full length of it, and it did not have a seam at all.
Two lungs. One spine. For eleven strikes it was the best thing either of them had ever felt.
He was thirty-five years old in a sixteen-year-old's history, and for four seconds he was a boy again.
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