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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I walk through the evening-soaked streets of their neighborhood, flowing around the parents swapping gossip outside their boardinghouses, the kids hollering at their friends and racing one another through the dust. Distant music and muffled audiographs thread through the air, mixed with the faint aroma of cooking food and the heavy scents of heat and dust. All of this has been the backdrop to most of my life, as intimate as my own heartbeat.

But there’s no comfort in it for me tonight.

Orion is already waiting for me on the front steps of the boardinghouse, curled in on himself. Still a kid—like me—but also not because no one stays a kid for long down in the dust.

He springs up at the sound of my footsteps. Is she okay? V, please say she’s okay—