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Название книги: Dreamfever
Автор(ы): Karen Moning
Жанр: Фэнтези
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PART 1
When I was in high school, I used to hate that Sylvia Plath poem where she talked about knowing the bottom, that she knew it with her great taproot and that it was what everybody else feared, but she didn’t, because she’d been there.I still hate it.But I get it now.— Mac’s journal
PROLOGUE
Mac: 11:18 a.m., November 1Death. Pestilence. Famine.They surround me, my lovers, the terrifying Unseelie Princes.Who’d’ve thought destruction could be so beautiful? Seductive. Consuming.My fourth lover—War? He ministers to me tenderly. Ironic for the bringer of Chaos, creator of Calamity, maker of Madness—if that is who he is. I cannot see his face, no matter how I try. Why does he hide?He caresses my skin with hands of fire. I char, my skin blisters, bones fuse from sexual heat no human can endure. Lust consumes me. I arch my back and beg for more with parched tongue, cracked lips. As he fills my body, he quenches my thirst with drink. Liquid spills over my tongue, drips down my throat. I convulse. He moves inside me. I catch a