Outside, the night lay coiled in the street, cobra-cold and scaled with stars. There
I love whom I love, Prince Lir repeated firmly. You have no power over anything that matters.
I am a king's daughter,And if I cared to care,The moon that has no mistressWould flutter in my hair.No one dares to cherishWhat I choose to crave.Never have I hungered,For that I did not haveI am a ki...
But I felt them...hungry shadows who knew my name, clawing at my mind and my soul to be let in - and if I let them in there would be nothing left of me but skin; nothing but a shadow inside, like them...
Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
For the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms.
The unicorn was gray and still. There is magic on me, she said. Why did you not tell me?I thought you knew, the magician answered gently. After all, didn't you wonder how it could be that they recogni...