He does not die. He does not even thank her.
'I shall bite out your eyes now,' she says, the uncertainty lingering.
'Please, my lady, as quickly as you can, to end suffering.' he says, and his words sound true.
But they suggest a different kind of suffering than the mere pain of death.
Confused, she moves to bite out his eyes, but at the last moment, she sees.
Deep within them, deep down past who this general is, deep beyond his youth and birth, behind the history of the-world-their-child who brought the general to this place, in this city/abattoir, on this battlefield, deep behind that–
There is a flash of green.
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The Crane Wife and the Volcano
General Fictionthis is not my story, it belongs to the great book "The Crane Wife", by the amazing writer Patrick Ness. this story explains the life of one of the main characters, called Kumiko (aka the crane wife), told by herself in 32 parts. even though there...
