The Bloody and the Damned

The Bloody and the Damned

Author: Becca Coffindaffer Listening Length: 11h 41m
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An assassin with outlawed, magical abilities will do anything to get their kidnapped sisters back in this dystopic-fantasy standalone, perfect for fans of Arcane and Iron Widow. Mercy has no place here. On Trinity, where the privileged live in the skies and the rest fight for water below, you do what you can to survive...

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The first time I phase, I’m six years old.

It happens on a market day. A cluster of bigger, older kids—greenhorns fixing to get recruited by the Gold Town Gang—come after me. Just to bully. Just to take their anger out on someone smaller than themselves.

I hide in a dark corner of an alley, trembling, expecting at any second to feel rough fingers grab my hair or my arms and drag me into the open. I want to disappear and become a shadow again. I stare at the rooftop and wish and wish I could be up there instead.

Everything goes dead silent. The sounds of Covenant disappear. The world around me becomes a smear of color and light and shadow.