Chapter 11 · free to read
The storm did not come down out of the sky. It came up, through a floor a hundred years old, and it came looking for one particular wrist.
Nine weeks ago she had been a scholarship girl worried about a chemistry midterm. Tonight she was the only wall on this side of the quad.
One hand of the cold pushed at the wall. The other went quietly around it, toward a small room where something of his was still sleeping.
The man who had engineered her whole life crawled out of the chapel with frost in his lungs, discarded by the thing he woke.
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