The dark was frightening, being alone in it was terrifying. I needed them close to me.

“I can’t,” he told me.

“I can’t do it again. It’s too hard. We cannot live like this, let us die.”

“No, we stay together,” I said pushing him to sit in the Lamplight.

“They won’t let us stay together,” he said drifting away into the dark.

“They will take you away again. We cannot survive and you did not come.”

My arms became huge in the dream. I hugged them together and pulled them all to my chest. They couldn’t escape back into the blackness. I would make them stay in the Light with me.

back in. They had wanted to be together with me so badly and I had not come. They had waited and then they had

men had tried to get back to my compound to check on me, but Nu-reeh had

to be here

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men were left at the cabin to deal with their desperation. Panic and hopelessness set in. They were sure something had happened to me. Their family was ripped and torn, never to be whole again. The

it would take a long time. They were too weak to hold their family together. I could be gone for many turns of the moon before

was shivering behind me and I turned to face him. He

at Master Christof he had had the same dream. We all had. The weight of their misery hung around me and I

were bonded, the six of us. I understood the anticipation suddenly, whispered memories told me how they had waited for me at the cabin. We had four days again, but I never came and they couldn’t come to me. They

when she came to get them and brought them here. She tried to help them, but there was nothing she could do. They whispered my name to her. That’s why she

said, “you are not like us. You are

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