“He’ll have to,” Theo says, maddeningly calm. “Just like you.”
Then he steps closer to me, and I see what he has in his hands: a syringe filled with emerald-green liquid. Nightthief.
I jerk away from him, but he tackles me, slamming into my back so hard it hurts. Landing on the wooden floor knocks the wind out of me, and for a moment all I can do is try to breathe.
“Sorry about that, Meg,” Theo says as he kneels over me, pinning me down. “But, you know. The ends justify the means.”
I feel the needle sink into my arm.
You idiot, I want to say. Nightthief helps travelers take over their hosts. What is this supposed to do to me while I’m in my own body?
Maybe he’s just poisoning me with the stuff—
Then a shudder ripples through me. Overwhelming—paralyzing. I try to move my hand, but I can’t.
I hear my voice come out of my mouth, speaking words that don’t belong to me. “About time,” I say.
Theo’s smile has become more genuine. “Always a pleasure to meet anyone from the Home Office.”
No. But I know it’s true. The Marguerite who believes in Triad—who’s willing to kidnap, blackmail, or kill in order to make our dimension obey her own—she’s leaped into my world. Into my body. And because of the Nightthief, she’s in charge.
She has turned my skin and bones into my prison.
“So,” Theo says. “What’s our first assignment?”
“Figure out what they’re up to.” There is nothing more horrible than the feeling of glee within my captor. This Marguerite hasn’t just captured me; she’s enjoying it. “My parents aren’t the kind of people to surrender even if it’s the smart thing to do, in any universe. But once the versions here have been outsmarted a few times, sabotaged a few times more . . . well, we might be able to bring them in line yet.”
Theo nods as he reaches down to help me—her—to her feet. “And if we don’t get them to work for our cause?”
She laughs. “Then it’s time for this dimension to die.”
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CLAUDIA GRAY is the pseudonym of New Orleans–based writer Amy Vincent, the author of the New York Times bestselling Evernight series. She has worked as a lawyer, a journalist, a disc jockey, and an extremely poor waitress. Her grandparents’ copy of Mysteries of the Unexplained is probably the genesis of her fascination with most things mysterious and/or inexplicable. Visit her online at www.claudiagray.com.
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FATEFUL
SPELLCASTER
STEADFAST
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A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU
TEN THOUSAND SKIES ABOVE YOU
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gray, Claudia.
Ten thousand skies above you / Claudia Gray. — First edition.
pages cm
Sequel to: A thousand pieces of you.
Summary: As eighteen-year-old Marguerite struggles to get to the heart of the corrupt company that almost killed her father, she tries to save the boy she loves, whose soul is scattered in various dimensions.
ISBN 978-0-06-227899-9 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-06-242789-2 (int.)
EPub Edition © October 2015 ISBN 9780062279019
[1. Space and time—Fiction. 2. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 3. Love—Fiction. 4. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.G77625Tj 2015 2014047816
[Fic]—dc23 CIP
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