Whisper is a blade that kills their wielders, always in search of a stronger body, even if it breaks them. When they face Heliodora the Insatiable, they think their end has finally come. They do not expect the dragon to spare her meal, much less to be kept as her personal blade. With her strength at their disposal, Whisper​ can finally be the weapon they were always fated to be; ruthlessly efficient, and so drunk on blood that the days blur together in dance and slaughter. But the detached blade harbours a secret. The body they were forged for, from the shard of a fractured mind and necromantic rites, is still alive. It crosses shattered skies and a world of flying islands to find them. And once she does, Whisper​ won't know whether to run, or bury themself in her chest—or which of the two would doom them worse.