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Thursday, April 19, 2012

A Clockwork Angel Extra: Why Will Hates Ducks


Cassie posted this on her tumblr earlier today and all I can really say is that only Cassie could make a story that you, at first, think may be funny turn out touching and bittersweet instead. *sighs* It's SO GOOD.

Here's the beginning:
Takes place at the beginning of Chapter Nine of Clockwork Angel, “The Conclave”:

Will kicked his heels impatiently against the legs of the library table. If Charlotte were there, she would have told him to stop damaging the furniture, though half the furniture in the library already bore the marks of years of abuse — chips in the pillars where he and Jem had been practicing swordplay outside the training room, scuffed shoe-prints on the windowseats where he’d sat for hours reading. Books with turned-down pages and broken spines, fingerprints on the walls.

Of course if Charlotte were there, they wouldn’t be doing what they were currently doing, either, which was watching Tessa Change form from herself to Camille and back again. Jem sat beside Will on the library table, occasionally calling out encouragement or advice. Will, leaning back on his hands with an apple he had stolen from the kitchen beside him, was pretending to be barely paying attention.

But paying attention he was. Tessa was pacing up and down the room, her hands clenched at her sides in concentration. It was fascinating to watch her Change: there was a ripple, as of the smooth water of a pond disturbed by a thrown pebble, and her dark hair would thread through with blond, her body curving and changing in such a way that Will found it impossible to pull his eyes away. It was not usually considered polite to stare at a lady in such a direct way, and yet he was glad of the chance . . .

The remainder of the story is posted here on Cassie's webpage. Who else wants all these extras/deleted scenes/alternate POVs in a seperate volume? I know I'd love to see them on my shelf.

1 comment:

  1. I always wanted to read one of her books but I can't find it in our town's bookstore. Anyways I'm so glad I found this blog, Nice blog by the way.

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