A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: L.L. McKinney
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Alice ran her fingers over the ivory handles of the daggers on the desk in
front of her. Cold light filled the blades, their surfaces more like silvered
glass than steel. You’d think after three months of knowing Addison Hatta,
she wouldn’t be surprised whenever he pulled random weapons out.
“Pretty.” She plucked one up and raised her eyebrows. “Light. What are
they?”
“Figment Blades.” Addison dug around in the drawers where he sat on
the other side of the desk. The old metal rattled and creaked.
“For real?” She trailed her fingers over the flat of one of the glittering
blades, the only things capable of killing Nightmares. She’d never held one
before or seen one, really.
“They’ll help focus your Muchness.”
“Munch-what now?”
“Muchness.” He slammed a drawer then jumped with a curse, shaking
out his hand. “Your Muchness, to be precise.” The fingers he’d shoved into
his mouth muffled the words. “The part of you that believes in yourself,
even when the rest of you doesn’t.”
Alice blinked a few times then set the dagger down. “Right. They look a
lil small for killing monsters.” She’d only ever seen one Nightmare, when
Addison rescued her the night her dad died. While it wasn’t huge, it was big
enough to be scary as all hell.
“That’s not what matters.” He slammed another drawer. “The weapon is
only part of the equation. A small part.”
The desk took up most of the cramped space he called his office—more
like a slightly large broom closet—along with the small love seat Alice sat
perched on. There were a couple lamps, but the place was mostly bare. No
file cabinets, no computer, just a little shelf in the corner with a funky
teapot on it.
“Says the dude who carries around a big fuck-off sword.” She’d
glimpsed the black blade a couple times since that night. When he wasn’t
fighting monsters, Addison kept it in a metal locker that filled a corner of
this “office.”
“Aha!” Addison straightened and set a leather belt beside the daggers.
The sheaths strapped to it clapped together. “You’ll have to be specific; I
have many swords.” There was a room in the back of this very building full
of weapons, but they were blunted for training.
Alice twisted her lips to the side and leveled a look at him. “You know
the one I’m talking about.”
“Do I?”
“Addison.”
“So many.”
“Addison.”
“Well, firstly: It’s not a Figment Blade, and secondly: I’m not human,
meaning I don’t have Muchness, so I need a little something extra.”
According to Addison, he could destroy a Nightmare’s physical body, but it
would just re-form after a while. Since Nightmares were a manifestation of
humanity’s fears, humans were the only ones who could put them down
permanently. That’s why people like him trained people like her.
“And last: you play too much.” She narrowed her eyes at him, but there
was no real heat behind it. “Talkin’ ’bout some ‘you’ll have to be specific.’
Specific deeze.”
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