CHAPTER 1
Daylight winked out at a quarter past noon. Cloudless thunder ripped across the sky, as though I stood in the middle of a collapsing building. It rattled in my ears and zipped across my skin, raising gooseflesh in its wake. The animals in the barn erupted into a frenzy, bucking and bleating and crying out sounds I’d never heard in all my thirty-four years. Vine’s hoof whipped by my jaw, close enough that I could feel the air compress around it. The cacophony was almost as violent as the thunder itself.
And then everything went dark, as if the world were lit by one candle, and it had been snuffed. No gradual setting of the Sun, no closing of lids. Only darkness.
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