Thursday, January 29, 2009

Chance to Consider

Chadstone was unnaturally still and small. Dakshana wondered where he'd gone, the boy who'd slain a dire wolf and brazenly staked her friends' lives on a kiss.

She asked again. "Why?"

"Why what?" His tone was clipped, sullen. Hurt. He was avoiding her gaze.

"Why me? Why all this?" Dakshana hadn't had a chance to consider how she'd ended up in this situation; she'd only had to concentrate on keeping her friends alive. "Did you just come to the midsummer fires looking for some - some stupid girl who was easy prey?"

His head came up sharply. "No."

"Then why? Tell me."

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