Teaser Tuesday #223

Ed ecco di nuovo la rubrica settimanale Teaser Tuesday, creata dal blog Should Be Reading, che si divide in poche, semplici fasi:
1_ prendi il libro che stai leggendo
2_ apri una pagina a caso
3_ scrivi un breve brano (stando attenti a non spoilerare)
4_ scrivi titolo e autore

Footage for this entire journal is a shot of Ella Malikova speaking directly to the camera.
Ella's fifteen, but she looks younger. Long black hair, sharp bangs. You can see a resemblance to her cousin Nik in the cheekbones and razorblade eyes, but that's where it stops.
Kid must weigh thirty kilos. The lysergia plague took the rest when she was thirteen. The chair she's strapped into looks even scarier than the computer she's sitting at. Wetware 'trodes at her temples. Breather pumping a medicated mix of O2 over her mouth. Say what you want about Handsome Mike Malikov - he loved his baby girl enough to spend a fortune on that rig. Enough to keep her kicking after lysergia dragged her as close to death's door as most folks ever get.
 - Gemina, Amie Kaufman e Jay Kristoff