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- Author: Lauren Kate
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THE THIRD TEAR
The sky wept. Sorrow ooded the earth.
Starling opened her mouth to catch the raindrops falling through
the hole in her cordon. The Seedbearer’s transparent sanctuary was
pitched over the bonre like a camper’s cozy tent. It sealed out the
deluge, except for the small opening at the top meant to vent the
re’s smoke and admit a sample of the rain.
Drops dampened Starling’s tongue. They were salty.
She tasted ancient uprooted trees, oceans reclaiming land. She
tasted black water on coastlines, gulfs engulfed. Withering
wildowers, parched highlands, everything salt-poisoned. A million
rotting corpses.
Eureka’s tears had done this—and more.
Starling smacked her lips, probing the rain for something else. She
closed her eyes and rolled the rain over her tongue like a sommelier
sampling wine. She could not yet taste Atlantean spires interrupting
sky. She could not taste the edges of Atlas, the Evil One.
This was good but confusing. Tears shed by the Tearline girl were
meant to bring Atlantis back. Preventing those tears’ fall had been
the Seedbearers’ single objective.
They had failed.
And what had happened? The ood was here, but where was its
ruler? Eureka had brought the horse but not its rider. Had the
Tearline swerved? Had something gone wrong in the right way?
Starling hunched over the re and studied her nautical charts.
Teardrops streamed down the cordon walls in sheets, accentuating
the warmth and brightness of the citronella-scented space inside. If
Starling had been someone else, she might have curled up with a
mug of cocoa and a novel, let the rain lull her into another world.
If Starling had been someone else, old age would have killed her
millennia ago.
It was midnight in the Kisatchie National Forest in central
Louisiana. Starling had been waiting for the others since midday.
She knew they would come, though they had not discussed this
location. The girl had wept so suddenly. Her ood dispersed the
Seedbearers along this vile new marsh, and there had been no time
to plan their regrouping. But here was where it would happen.
Yesterday, before Eureka cried, this site had sat a hundred and
fty miles from the Gulf. Now it was a shard of disappearing
coastline. The bayou—its banks, dirt roads, dance halls, twisting live
oak trees, antebellum mansions, and pickup trucks—lay entombed
in a sea of selsh tears.
And somewhere out there swam Ander, in love with the girl
who’d done this. Resentment brewed inside Starling when she
thought of the boy’s betrayal.
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