Blair has many skills, and she has her own ways of getting inpurrmation. It wasn’t the first time Blair had “accidentally” read something she was not supposed to see. In return, she hadn’t spoken to him for a week. Blair knows this because Maka had left the folder on the coffee table for three days before Soul had cracked, telling her in the gentlest way possible that he’d put it in her drawer, somewhere she could keep it safe. She has seen this expression before, but she cannot remember where.Ī successful mission, the final report had read. When she puts down the pile of mail with the postcard on top, she watches his eyes flare before something in them extinguishes. He starts to point to the ready-made bowl in the kitchen before he looks up at her. She creaks open the door and Soul is on the couch, picking his way through a bowl of spaghetti. Some things should stay between a mother and her daughter. The curvy tops of her shoes lean away from every step she makes towards the fallout. She shuts the box and ascends the stairs. The cogs in their lives were finally starting to turn again.Īnd now there’s a postcard in the mailbox. There is a brokenness that was just beginning to mend. So much has been lost in the past few weeks. When she pulls them out, she sees a small red sticker on the side of the postcard that reads: Delayed: Lost. She lifts the whole pile, talons splaying against the sides of the mailbox before she grasps the letters in her palm. She hesitates for a moment before reaching out, strips of violet joining the mix as her nails move across the paper. She might come and go as she likes, and might perhaps occasionally forget to pay the water bill, but she knows when she’s needed. But despite the plunging feeling in her stomach, she will be there. It is strange how an act as normal as getting the mail is likely to send her apartment into a tailspin.
She eyes the card again and wishes Soul had asked her to go get milk instead. She doesn’t like tiptoeing, doesn’t like keeping up that extra layer of false cheerfulness that she often peels away at home. She’s used to faking a smile at Chupa Cabra’s, but this is a different circumstance with a vastly different audience. The simple task of bringing up the mail now requires a level of finesse that Blair had not anticipated needing on a quiet Thursday evening.
A lot farther than her roommate has come in the past two months.
It’s come a long way to get here, she thinks. Waves of blue, pink and green stretch across a snowy wonderland, threads of color weaving together against murky black skies. It asks for nothing but a pair of eyes for the reader to turn it over, to access its contents, to read the cursory greeting gracing its B-side.īlair blinks at the paper on top of the pile, staring at the image on its surface. Order of Books » Authors » Order of James S.A.It sits there, innocently placed on a throne of credit card offers and pizza pamphlets. When a reluctant ship’s captain and washed-up detective find themselves involved in the case of a missing girl, what they discover brings our solar system to the brink of civil war, and exposes the greatest conspiracy in human history. Two hundred years after migrating into space, mankind has run into turmoil.
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