A Brilliance of Suns, chapter six exerpt.

Dear Reader,
Did I tell you I'm writing a book? I have been for quite some time now. Obviously it's still a first draft...but I wanted to share with you a piece of the sixth chapter. It's a short piece, and I haven't given you any explanation as to what is actually going on in the story, but I thought you might want to read a bit anyway, just for fun. It includes my favorite character.
--S
p.s. Guess who my favorite character is.

“I know it was you.” Sky whispered. He licked his lips, staring at the ground. She could see his hands trembling with anger, and then he looked at her. His eyes were bright, the crystalline irises blue flame. ”Bitch.” He spat.

She swallowed hard, trying to keep her face void of fear. “I didn’t--”

He took a step toward her, and she broadened her stance, readying herself.

No one spoke, only watched as the two circled around each other slowly in a rigid dance. Sky clenched his left fist, and had she not been so terrified Danielle might have found this interesting. Because she too was left handed.

Her throat was dry. Her heart was pounding in her ears. Her mind felt only capable of taking in one thing: The boy standing in front of her. Sky’s dark hair was in his eyes, and his tattoos covered almost every inch of him up to his neck. Tan skin peeking from between the inked lines.

She wanted to back away, but he would only follow her.

“I didn’t do anything.” She said.

“Who else would it have been?” His voice was still dangerously soft.

“Sky, what are you talking about?” A voice in the crowd around them asked.

Sky didn’t take his eyes off of Danielle. “She’s been leaking information about us to the compound.”

The room erupted in whispered conversation.

“What?” Danielle almost laughed. “That’s ridiculous. Why would they want to know anything about you?”

“Are they planning another purge?” Someone from their audience called.

And then Danielle knew that that was exactly what Sky had been thinking.

She let her eyes soften, trying to beg him without words to believe her, and instantly knew that it was a mistake.

Sky moved quickly enough that she didn’t have time to so much as flinch.

He slapped her so hard that she fell, throwing her arm out to stop her. But her bad wrist collapsed. Her head hit the tiles and an shrill ringing filled her mind. She felt Sky approach her again.

“Sky. Stop it.” Someone snapped.

“Vega, get the fuck out of my way.” He answered.

And then “Don’t you dare touch her.” It was Taurean, and Danielle opened her eyes enough to see him push Vega behind him, away from Sky.

She closed her eyes again and listened to the sound of Sky’s boots stomping the floor are he left, the door slamming behind him on its rusty hinges.

She felt sick.

People were still whispering, but dispersing to other ends of the library now,leaving her lying on the floor. She felt her face cautiously. Her brow was moist with either blood, or sweat. Maybe both.

“Hey.” Someone nudged her elbow with the toe of their shoe.

She opened her eyes again. It was Leo. He was smiling at her, revealing his missing left canine, and she wondered again how he had lost it.

“You should have fought back, girl. No one ever stands up to that bastard.”

“Aren’t you friends?” She mumbled.

“Sure, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a bastard.” He squatted down beside her, shaking her shoulder. “Come one, stop being such a baby and sit up.”

Danielle pushed herself up on her elbows, wincing.

“Look at me.” He took her face into his hands like he was about to kiss her, then tilted her head from side to side. “Nah, you’ll be fine.” He said, wiping the blood off with his sleeve.

“I think I have a concussion.”

“What’s a concussion?” He asked, taking his hands away from her.