"Render" teaser

I'm almost 90,000 words into draft zero of Render, so it looks like I'll be finishing it up sometime in December I'm guessing.  For those of you who have finished Shatter and want more, here's a little teaser from the beginning of Render. Enjoy!

Tilted back against the wall, Kade slouched in a chair asleep.  His ankles were crossed, resting on the edge of her bed.  His long knife lay across his lap.

Faela smiled as she pushed her hair back and got to her feet.  The floorboards felt shockingly cold after the warm bed.  Crossing her arms, she walked over to the window.  When her feet touched the tufts of the wool rug laying in the middle of the room, she dug her toes into its thick pile.  Grateful for the barrier against the icy floor, she admired the snow violets ringing its edges. Her head still felt like it was stuffed with wool and her throat ached.  She unlatched the window and pushed it open to let in some fresh air.

When the bite of the air hit the back of her throat, the grogginess lifted and she remembered the emptiness, the blood, the death.  She remembered Sammi and it threatened to drown her.  She splayed her hands on the dressing table and leaned onto it for support.  She heard a creak behind her and a warm hand touched her back, but it didn’t make her flinch.

“I forgot,” Faela admitted to the unseen person.  “When I woke up, I didn’t remember.  Then,” she broke off, “then it came back, all of it.  How could I forget?”  Faela looked out the window at the jagged, snow-covered mountain peaks rising around them.