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Something moves at the end of the corridor. I raise the gun and stop when I see the small figure, the same soft wings but smaller; coiled serpent hair tight about the head. Little more than a girl. The creature’s offspring. What she was protecting.
I lift the Gorgon’s head and remember my mother as she lay dying in her bed.
He had heard rumors, when he was working for the bears, that their prince had fallen in love with a human girl, and that she had been the one to betray him. The prince, the young man who should have been a bear, was the reason why the castle must never fail, the reason why Jack must never speak.
He knew there was more to the story he’d told Greta. Not just later, not just the forgotten ending.
Saladin Ahmed on his BCS story "Where Virtue Lives" and his new novel Throne of the Crescent Moon.
Saladin Ahmed on his BCS story "Where Virtue Lives" and his new novel Throne of the Crescent Moon.
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My fingers sought the memory of a scarf around my throat, then slid down to Sun Lin's thin shoulder.