The Last Refuge by Christina Bacilieri EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Christina Bacilieri
- Language: English
- Genre: Coming of Age Fantasy
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DREAMER
Sleep is a time when our bodies quiet and our minds open, allowing the
veil between the seen and unseen to thin. at’s what Kiera’s mother had
once told her.
“Nothing good comes from dreaming,” Kiera sighed into the darkness.
She threw back her bed covers, shaking away the visions burned into her
memory. is dream had dogged her for weeks now. It was the same each time
—water rippling over stone, the glint of iridescent scales, and a ash of golden
eyes with ecks of amber around the pupils—always leaving a deep longing in
its wake. e sweat sliding down her back made her skin prickle in the crisp
morning air, but she welcomed the chill. It banished the ache in her chest.
e sun was hours from rising, which would provide her some cover on the
street at least. Kiera peeled o her nightclothes and tugged on the dark pants
and jacket she’d laid out the night before. If she was going to make it to the
train station, she needed to leave soon. It wasn’t too late to change her mind,
she thought, as her hand brushed the backpack lled with an assortment of
worn shirts and trousers. Her hesitation didn’t last though; she couldn’t pass up
this opportunity. She hoisted the bag over her shoulder and crept out of her
room into the still house. Nook was curled up in his bed. e tawny-furred
hound cracked an eye open as she passed.
“Go back to sleep, buddy,” Kiera said as she knelt down to stroke his head.
She’d found him behind a dumpster years ago on one of her lonely walks
back from academy. e fact that a puppy had managed to elude the nightly
drone sweeps was remarkable. She’d smuggled him home in her backpack, and
her mother decided they could keep him, admitting the two of them were
kindred spirits.
A hint of a smile tugged at Kiera’s lips, but it faded as her eyes trailed to her
mother’s bedroom. e door was open, but Rose wasn’t home. She was pulling
a triple shift and had slept at the medical center. e steady ow of ill and
emaciated patients had tapered o some in the last year, but the hospital was
still understaed, and she was the best nurse they had.
Kiera stood and ran her ngers over the doorframe where her mother had
ticked o her height each year. Emotion tightened her throat as she thought of
her mother gently cupping her cheek and making the mark over her head. It’d
been the two of them against the world for as long as she could remember. e
wood dug into her palm as she steadied herself against the doorway.
Her father
had left them before she was born, her mother telling her she believed he’d
relocated to one of the southern continents. e only photo Kiera had of him
was stued in a drawer in her room. She went numb every time she stared
down at the handsome stranger whose light hazel eyes matched her own.
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