KillWish
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Ваша оценкаGreta is a duchess and crown princess—and a hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Go to war and your hostage dies.
Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the world’s leaders. Like them, she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Like them, she is prepared to die with dignity, if she must. ...
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RamingoWS15 ноября 2017 г.Читать далее"Isn`t that right, angel?"
"I`m not an angel," I say.
Angels are pure souls without bodies. Demons are the ones who possess, and ghosts are the dead, still living. I might be either a demon or a ghost, but-- but--
"What are you, then?" says Talis softly, privately, his sensors aglow.
I know it is important. I am as curious as he to discover the answer. We wait through 3,4511 milliseconds of processing silence.
"I`m a monster," I say.
A smile comes onto his face, then, like bindweed growing across a grave. "Welcome to the club."119- RamingoWS15 ноября 2017 г.
Here is something that you learn when you spend a lifetime in rigorous study of the history of war: the weaknesses we perceive in others are often the ones we fear in ourselves. Talis was, famously, someone who knew how to use love -- parent-child love -- as a lever. How to turn grief into power. Well. Two could play at that game.
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"Xie," I said. "Do you think they`ll kill me?"
Da-Xia`s fingers stroked the pulse poing in my wrist. There weren`t five people in the world who would have answered me honestly, but Xie was one of them. She said, "Not right away."18