I'D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD DIE --
though I'd had reason enough in the last few months -- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.
I started without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me.
surely it was good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.
I knew that if I'D never gone to Forest, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the division. When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it come to an end.
The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me.
