A new short story from Sally Green set in the world of Half Bad.
Gabriel Boutin is back in Europe, stuck in the body of a fain.
He's looking for Mercury, the powerful and volatile Black Witch who might be his only hope of regaining his true form.
But Mercury's help won't come cheap, and as Gabriel is put to punishing work to earn her trust, he begins to realise that life as a fain could be a way to escape the violence of his past.
Torn between two paths, can Gabriel find the true Witch within, before he's trapped as a fain forever?
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'I imagine you feel slightly foolish' GABRIEL
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(@PenguinUKBooks, 3 November 2015, ebook, 100 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I enjoyed this story as well. Like Half Lies, this also focuses on Gabriel and is set after his sister's death and before he encounters Nathan. Gabriel, whose gift is to transform into other's at will, is stuck asa Fain, a non-witch and makes a deal with a powerful Black Witch to be restored. But she won't help him out of the kindles of her heart. We learn how he crosses paths with Nathan as well.
