2021/034: Elatsoe -- Darcie Little Badger

2021/034: Elatsoe -- Darcie Little Badger

An animal crawling from her elbow to her shoulder. She opened her eyes and glimpsed a flash of shiny exoskeleton. An impression of the trilobite’s ghost. However, it had been dreaming so long, its drowsiness lingered. The trilobite shimmered, faded, and slipped back to the underworld. But for a moment, she’d brushed a little soul that had lived on Earth five hundred million years ago. [loc. 1207]

Ellie lives in Texas. She's seventeen, Lipan Apache, uninterested in dating, and has two close friends: Jay, who is White and a descendant of Oberon, and Kirby, who is a ghost dog.

( no spoilers )