Dear Lucy (Drake Chronicles)

Dear Lucy

This extra was available during the Drake Chronicles Scavenger Hunt...

It contains a few Drake Chronicles spoilers-- be warned if you haven't read Blood Moon yet!

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Lucy,

I hope you never read this letter.

The world is a glass cup being dropped onto a floor of hard tiles. It is breaking into pieces, each more jagged than the last, and you're barefoot and I know you'll cut yourself bloody trying to fit those pieces back together again. I would do anything to save you, even from yourself.

The Drakes are a fire, Lucy, and fire can warm you on a cold winter night or it can burn you clear through.

And I won't be a weapon used against you. I love you too much for that, and you love us too much to see the danger. And what's the use of living forever if you're not a part of forever? Better to have faded away entirely on my sixteenth birthday than to live a day, a year, a hundred, without you in the world. I don't miss the sun because you've always been brighter.

The glass cup has already slipped from our grasp. We all know it, even without prophecies and Isabeau's omens. And there isn't enough magic in the world to stop gravity.

The best we can do is find a soft place to land. I will always be that for you. I know you hate it, but you are more fragile than you know. You are like that cup, all prisms and light.

We have plans and you'll be furious that you weren't included but I don't know what else to do. If Solange doesn't get better, we will have very few options left to us. I've talked to Kieran, and yes, I know that will infuriate you too. I can already hear you threatening to break my nose again. But I'll do what I have to, and I'm not sorry for it.

Know this, Lucy, if it becomes impossible for me to say it out loud: I love you. I will always be your shield and your bridge and your soft place to land.

I will always love you.

Nicholas

Copyright Alyxandra Harvey 2012