“The chimera’s heart,” I whispered. “You never told me where you hid it.”
“No,” he said again. “It is sleeping. And inside its ribcage, a girl who died for us dreams of a garden where the rain never falls, only the names of flowers.” The Chimera-s Heart -Final- -Sirotatedou-
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The chimera lowered its heads. One by one, it laid them in his lap — lion, goat, serpent — and wept. Not tears of blood. Just tears. Salt. Loss. “The chimera’s heart,” I whispered
A question.
The chimera took it. And in exchange, it lay down in its cave and closed six eyes forever. “The chimera’s heart