Clockwork Princess snippet
Will rose slowly to his feet. He could not believe he was
doing what he was doing, but it was clear that he was, clear as the silver rim
around the black of Jems’s eyes. “If there is a life after this one, “ he said,
“let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.”
“There will be other lives.” Jem held his hand out, and for
a moment, they clasped hands, as they had done during their parabatiai ritual,
reaching across twin rings of fire to interlace their fingers with each other. “The
world is a wheel,” he said. “When we rise or fall, we do it together.”
Will tightened his grip on Jem’s hand, which felt thin as
twigs in his. “Well, then,” he said, through a tight throat, “since you say
there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossa a
mess of it as I have this one.”
Tess put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly
down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?
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