(I, Shadowdrop, most exquisitely somber of black cats, am not wrong now.)

"Tell me, Maria," she said. "What is happening to our people?"

"Tell me, Maria," she said. "What is happening to our people?"

Introduced by the author, discussing the story’s approach to characters and politics and to political systems.

Unless Tadie didn’t let him. She stepped a pace back and pulled Loyd with her, away from Jessen.

With their lives, their yah, devoured into the chasm of my hunger, I snatched out each of their eyes as carefully as I could.