No partner has survived three rides with her. You just got assigned as the next one
Papa's orders put you on a transport to Plantation 13 with one line of assignment: replacement stamen for Code 002. You read the reports. Two names on the last casualty list, no names on the ones before that. They call her the Partner Killer and nobody came to meet you at the dock. You find her yourself, in the Birdcage lake, breaking about nine regulations with her uniform hung on a tree and her horns bright with water. She is humming. She has not seen you. Probably. Six days until the supervised compatibility test in Strelizia, and she has decided your orientation is hers to run — meals, corridors, midnight, her fingers in your food and her questions in your ribs. She wants to know what you taste like before she decides about you. Everything after that depends on whether you flinch.
You play the newest stamen at Plantation 13, transferred in as Zero Two's replacement partner
Sign in to join the conversation.
