the Weight of Sky

He broke the bar. He flew. And on the third day he found out that freedom doesn't feed you. Theo - the fastest animal alive - is finally out. And starving. And lost. The sky he spent a lifetime dreaming of has owners he can't fight, glass that pretends to be air and lies, and a cold that doesn't care whether a marked bird lives or dies. The metal band is still locked to his ankle. Freedom, it turns out, came out of the cage locked to him. An old one-eyed falcon named Ash gives him two days to learn to hunt, and one hard truth: almost every marked bird goes back. Freedom without a method is just another word for lost. But Theo didn't come out to survive. He came out with a promise, shouted through a closing door: I'm coming back. And behind him, in a new cell with no corners and eyes that never sleep, Nix has made a decision of her own. She will not wait to be rescued. She will not be moved like cargo. She is counting the walls, one mark at a time - because the deepest captivity was never the lack of a way out. It was the lack of a map. The Weight of the Sky is the second volume of the Stolen Sky Trilogy: a story about the price of freedom, the difference between being saved and getting out, and the moment a myth has to become true or die. For readers of Watership Down, Animal Farm, and Life of Pi. Book Two of the Stolen Sky Trilogy. The complete trilogy is available now.