Sorrow and Starlight by Caroline Peckham EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Author: Caroline Peckham
- Language: English
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Darcy
Pain splintered through my chest as I climbed the rocky mountain, my body
still taking the form of the monstrous beast which bound me to Lavinia’s
curse.
I was holding onto my own mind with everything I had left, but the
Shadow Beast’s desires were surrounding each of my thoughts and snuffing
them out like a raging storm against a flickering flame. Its presence was
crushing, suffocating, and so powerful it felt like it was carving fissures into
the depths of what made me…me.
A scream tore from my throat as I called on my power in an effort to take
charge of this creature that had stolen ownership of my flesh, but it came out
as a tremendous roar which shook the entire mountainside. My magic lay
quiet inside me, not responding to my plea, like it no longer belonged to me
at all.
I could feel the beast’s desire to go back, to return to the battle and sate
the bloodlust raking at the centre of my throat, demanding more carnage. It
was a command that held me hostage, like the fiercest Coercion I’d ever
known. But still, I held on, thinking of my sister back there, and of the man I
loved with every furious beat of my heart. I wouldn’t hurt them. Not ever.
Somehow, I managed to keep increasing the distance between me and the
battlefield, hating that I was abandoning everyone, yet knowing my presence
would only make it worse.
Blood stained my muzzle, and the scent of death was vile and intoxicating
at once. I was two opposing creatures housed within one body, and I feared I
wasn’t strong enough to dominate the one that didn’t belong here.
What if I was merging into this being, becoming a monster? And when it
was done with me, it would spit me back out and leave me barren, Darcy
Vega just a memory cast to the wind.
The hollow space in my chest where my magic usually lived echoed dully
as I tried to encourage even a scrap of it to my aid.
There was nothing. I was empty, and the fear that I was becoming mortal
tangled with every other terror inside of me until it nearly ripped me apart.
This was worse than anything else Lavinia could have done to me; she was
taking my soul, cleaving it from my chest and burning it to ash. The Shadow
Beast was fuelled by her desires, and she wanted me ruined.
Exhaustion was rattling my bones, begging me to stop running and rest
my aching muscles. I’d climbed high into the mountains now and cold air
swept around me, the snow-cloaked peaks above me almost within reach.
The closest mountaintop was damaged where the fallen star had streaked
through the sky and slammed into it, boulders and rocks strewn across the
side of it, disappearing into a ravine somewhere ahead of me.
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