Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing Lasts Forever
"Nothing Lasts Forever" by David N. Smith and Violet Anderson is a story in the anthology A Romance in Twelve Parts edited by Stuart Douglas for Obverse Books.

Synopsis
Brother Bow, a novice in Faction Paradox and raised in the alternative London of the Eleven Day Empire discovers a mysterious woman in the streets of the Empire. She whisks him away on an adventure, feeding off his desire to escape even the lax constraints the Faction places on its members. Brother Bow iscleft to wonder who she is, and why, exactly, does she want to steal the face of Catherine of Aragon?