The Sea is Full of Stars

you’re next, it read simply, with phonetic spelling of a non-Hadun name as the signature.

“Jeremiah,” the name became when pronounced.

“Not me, Jeremiah Kincaid!” she’d been heard screaming as she tore the messenger to bits. “Now there will be no quarter! Now we conquer or die! Now they all die! The Kalindans, that bird thing, the Ochoan—all of them! And especially you, Jeremiah! Come and get me!”