Lost Voices
“She let her voice rise into that high, aching note. But then she held it right there, pinning it like a butterfly and refusing to let it tumble down the scale. She could feel that her voice was angry with her, trying to fight free of her control, and she stopped singing. i 143“You’re mine, ” Luce told her voice sternly. “You’re mine, and you’re going to do exactly what I tell you!” She let the note rise again. This time, instead of tumbling, it soared even higher, fluttered, wheeled around in s...pace. Luce was thrilled. Finally she was singing a new song! And the emotion in the song was different, too. Instead of filling her with soft, warm longing for everything she’d lost, it was full of quick, dizzy magic, a leaping celebration. Humans would certainly be enchanted by this song, Luce thought, but she was almost sure it wouldn’t make them want to die. It just wasn’t that kind of feeling, and Luce laughed out loud. The new song faltered and disappeared. When Luce tried again, the death song came back, and it was even more beautiful, even fiercer with tenderness and hunger, than ever before.MoreLess
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