Query:
Eighteen-year-old
Princess Far has always known how it feels to die.
She is a
Relic, a person who has visions from their past lives, and she has spent her
entire life guarding this secret. Most people believe Relics and their so-called
demon magic must be exterminated.
After the
sudden death of her sister, Far must assume membership in the kingdom’s
Council, but all she knows how to do is be invisible.
When a dark
order of magi invades her kingdom and thrusts her people into a world war,
Far’s past-life knowledge becomes her most powerful weapon. She is the only one
who knows the order's secret. But somehow, they also know hers. She must decide
if exposure is worth the protection of her people.
Because if
those same people learn what she really is, they’ll nail her to a fiery stake.
Crown and all.
RELIC has
qualities of GRACELING, A GAME OF THRONES, and THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS.
First 250:
I’ve died
this way before.
Before, I
stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time. But now, from the burning in
the stranger’s eyes, I know he has every intention of killing me.
I wonder,
does he see her too?
Her name is
Far. All my life, I have been haunted by memories. I don’t know about magic or
destiny or death. But they do. There are thousands of memories and dozens of
lives trapped inside me. Or maybe I am trapped inside them.
His
footsteps behind me grow louder. When I try to push myself up from the forest
floor, my chest smashes back to the ground.
The
footsteps stop. I hear his breathing behind me. A heavy inhale. A slow, relaxed
exhale. I can’t see him, but I think he’s smiling.
I squeeze
my eyes shut and try to recall how it feels to be stabbed. For once, the
memories don’t come.
Of all the
memories, Far's are the clearest, so close to the surface that sometimes I
believe they’re my memories. That I am Far. That she is me.
Of course
that can’t be true. Her tiara is my baseball cap. Her magical tattoos are my
tan lines. Her creepy past-life sketches are my inspirational posters.
I’m not
Far.
I’m not.
But I can’t
let it go. I can’t convince myself that I’m my own, separate person when one
crucial piece of evidence is missing: Far never died. Her life ended without
even a whisper, as if existence has a pause button.
I can’t help
but think it has something to do with me.
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