Ann Aguirre - Enclave (2010)

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He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

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Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

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You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination. That would have to do.

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My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.

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We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.

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There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

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Where did you go? Down below. Ugh, she said. I've heard they're little better than animals. Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw.... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. I'm Deuce, animal from the underground.

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He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

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He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.

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