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She’d been dead for a month, but damn if I didn’t love her.
Selena looked back at me from across the room, an ashen square
occupied by swirling sheets of paper, a lone chair, and a closed door that
Selena stood near. The walls were cracking, bits of mortar falling to the
ground before getting swept up in Riven’s ever-present breeze. Selena
gripped the doorknob, but she wasn’t going to open it. Not till I was ready.
My right hand slipped to the hilt on my waist, tied to my belt. My
fingers fit into the creases on the leather grip. I lifted it free of the holster
without a sound. As I held it up, the lash unrolled and played out along the
floor like a snake waiting for its chance to strike. At the end of its long tail,
the lash split into a pair of metal points. Points that glowed a faint blue.
“I’ve seen that enough times to not be impressed,” Selena said. Her
voice came with a thousand memories, scratches and scars underlining
every word.
“It’s part of my style,” I said. I walked forward to the door and took
Selena’s hand off the knob. No reason to risk her for this. My gloved hand
took her place, and I twisted.
The door opened inward, revealing an even greater disaster on the other
side. Rubble from a caved-in roof spread across the floor, stone blocks split
in half or smaller pieces scattered around. Dust swirled and danced in
Riven’s cold light. The same gray cast colored everything in this world.
Sitting on the rubble, head between his hands, was a man. Or at least what
used to be one.
His hair was thinning, some spare spidery wisps falling to touch his
dirty white collar. A bow-tie hung askew beneath his neck, the lone spot of
black until the man’s torn trousers. He’d lost his shoes somewhere on the
way to here. I noticed the watch on one hand, gold and shining. Rare to see
something like that come through. Must have been a present, a treasured
gift.
“Be careful,” Selena whispered. “This one’s got an edge.”
“It won’t get close,” I replied, and raised the lash.
As my lash went into the air, its length whipping up and stretching over
my right shoulder, the man looked up at me. No matter how many times
I’ve seen their eyes, they never fail to send a shiver running through my
nerves. Pale blue fire burned where their pupils should be. The sign of a
spirit that’s been consumed, that’s lost what little remained of who they
were.
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