Game

Excitement bubbled up in Jenny. “Finally we can go somewhere.””And get out of this freaking hallway,” Dee said. Michael was looking awed. “It’s just like going up to the next…

It was an abstract rendition of a forest, very heavy on green swirling lines.”All right, so I did draw a forest,” Audrey said. “I’ve always had nightmares about them, but…

Mock scraped on rock and the moonlight was cut off above them. Audrey was lying in a ball beside Jenny near the bottom of the slope. Dee had been shoved…

“Cypress eyes and sun-glowing skin … and your hair’s like liquid amber. Why do you wear it back like that?””Because Tom likes it,” Jenny said reflexively, her standard response. “Look,…

The room behind the door had golden-ocher walls. On one of them an African mask hung in primitive glory. Several clay sculptures rested on built-in teak shelving, including a bust…

Jenny whirled on the boy in black, who was leaning against the parlor wall and watching in amusement.”What are you doing to him?” “In the Game you have to face…

Jenny felt as if a black riptide was trying to suck her underwater. It was him. The boy from the game store. Every detail of his face was reproduced perfectly,…

God-the box, Jenny thought. Michael was the sort who would potter around the room reading your mail and opening your drawers in an absentminded way. Insatiably curious. She followed him.Her…

She stopped. The boy was holding out the box to her. Jenny hesitated, nonplussed.”You can hold it if you want,” he said gently. “Okay,” Jenny said, embarrassed, her vehemence fading….

Jenny glanced back over her shoulder. They were still behind her, on the other side of the street but definitely following. They matched their pace to hers; when she slowed…

DaenerysThe land was red and dead and parched, and good wood was hard to come by. Her foragers returned with gnarled cottonwoods, purple brush, sheaves of brown grass. They took…

CatelynIt seemed a thousand years ago that Catelyn Stark had carried her infant son out of Riverrun, crossing the Tumblestone in a small boat to begin their journey north to…

JonThe mare whickered softly as Jon Snow tightened the cinch. “Easy, sweet lady,” he said in a soft voice, quieting her with a touch. Wind whispered through the stable, a…

TyrionThey have my son,” Tywin Lannister said. “They do, my lord.” The messenger’s voice was dulled by exhaustion. On the breast of his torn surcoat, the brindled boar of Crakehall…

DaenerysWings shadowed her fever dreams. “You don’t want to wake the dragon, do you?” She was walking down a long hall beneath high stone arches. She could not look behind…

SansaIn the tower room at the heart of Maegor’s Holdfast, Sansa gave herself to the darkness. She drew the curtains around her bed, slept, woke weeping, and slept again. When…

BranThe oldest were men grown, seventeen and eighteen years from the day of their naming. One was past twenty. Most were younger, sixteen or less. Bran watched them from the…

AryaThe scent of hot bread drifting from the shops along the Street of Flour was sweeter than any perfume Arya had ever smelled. She took a deep breath and stepped…

DaenerysThe flies circled Khal Drogo slowly, their wings buzzing, a low thrum at the edge of hearing that filled Dany with dread. The sun was high and pitiless. Heat shimmered…

CatelynThe woods were full of whispers. Moonlight winked on the tumbling waters of the stream below as it wound its rocky way along the floor of the valley. Beneath the…