The Stars are Dying by Chloe C. Penaranda EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Chloe C. Penaranda
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PROLOGUE
He’d learned that dying, no matter how slow and painful the seconds
before a final breath, was nothing compared to taking infinite more
without the one he loved.
No—love was too mundane a word for the split in his soul she cleaved in
her wake.
For two hundred years he’d watched the same constellation as though it
were the only one in existence. Now it had begun to fade. A fraction every
week that no other would notice. To him it became a countdown.
He faintly adjusted the magnification of the telescope so as not to miss a
flicker, his sight mapping the twelve points. Always the same order. He
didn’t even know he’d adopted the pattern.
Even in the fading light she was magnificent.
Yet he didn’t plan to be here when the earth quaked for her return. Years,
perhaps decades, still from now. He didn’t plan to remain the reason those
cracks continued when she came back.
Knowing this was the last time, he lingered a little longer. Then he
sighed, stored the final sight, and pulled away.
Sitting on the low ledge of the open archway window, he lifted the glass
of liquor he held, clinking it against the metal telescope. “I tried to find a
way. It’s been as hopeless as it was back then,” he said. Over the years he’d
become so detached that no emotion plagued him now. “But I’m also glad
you won’t get to see all that I’ve become. Your disappointment might just be
the thing to break me.”
The alcohol burned down his throat as he tipped back the contents of the
glass. His tight grip shattered it, but he didn’t feel the slices through his palm.
There was nothing that could hurt him anymore.
“I never got the chance to ask you what you saw.” A fist tightened in his
chest, but the agony was all he had to remember how real she was since time
tried to blur the images. “How you saw past it all and for a fleeting moment
made me believe there was something good in me. I’m sorry you were
wrong.”
Standing, he slung on his black cloak, steps crunching through glass
shards as if they were all that was left of his old existence.
“At least I won’t be able to hurt you anymore.”
They all cowered at the hooded shadow that passed them. Shrinking back,
bowing their heads, avoiding his stare as he swept through the castle halls.
The black glittering marble of the floors, broken only by white pillars and
the occasional sculpture, appeared sinister with the figure who occupied the
space now. Before, there was beauty in these halls. But what was once the
darkness of dreams and a clear night sky was now the kind of death.
The people he swept by whispered a name—one that had attached itself
to him not by choice, but by the sin he represented. The god he was all but a
mortal form of.
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