Perfect Ruin. Lauren DeStefano

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      “Since you’re out, come on and eat something,” Alice says. “I made berry cobbler.”

      Later, when Lex has retreated to his office once again, Alice is washing the dishes and I’m drying them.

      “He is right,” she says. “It’s best if you stay away from that girl.”

      “Who is she?” I say. Alice takes her husband’s side about most things, but she’s always had a soft spot for me.

      “You were right,” she says, handing me a dripping plate. “She’s Daphne’s sister. She may be a little girl, but she’s got a lot of demons. It’s best if you let her alone.”

      I’ve heard that saying used to describe my brother. “A lot of demons.” That’s what my father said while we all kept vigil at Lex’s bedside in the hospital. I didn’t know what he meant. But now I’m thinking of Amy Leander, and what it must have been like to learn her sister wouldn’t be coming home. It was the most awful thing I could imagine, watching my brother fight to breathe in that sterile room. But at least he was breathing.

      Alice starts talking about frivolous things—greenhouse vegetation and silver earrings in jewelry shop windows that she thinks will make my eyes sparkle—and I play along, but she isn’t fooling me. There’s something happening to Internment. That’s as certain as Daphne Leander is dead.

       8

       Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

      —“Intangible Gods,” Daphne Leander, Year Ten

      BASIL THROWS A STONE INTO THE LAKE, trying to make it skip.

      “Like this,” I say, pitching the stone into the water at an angle. It hits the surface and promptly sinks. Basil tries not to laugh.

      “Well, I was good at it when I was little, anyway.” I fall back into the grass and watch a cloud that’s sloping over the atmosphere.

      “Our engineers spend so much time studying the ground,” Basil says, settling beside me. “Ever think about what’s above us?”

      “The tributary,” I say. “The god of the sky.”

      “But those are intangible,” Basil says. “Spiritual. What I mean is, what if there’s more land up there? What if there are people living on the stars?”

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