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.

a few days before started to creep back in. They had wanted to be together with me so badly and I had not come. They had waited and then they had decided to get

to my compound to check on me, but Nu-reeh had stopped them. She’d taken

permission to be here only,” she’d

free days are

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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 anger had

hold their family together. I could be gone for many turns of the moon before they could

shivering behind me and I turned to face him. He looked desperate and yet

the same dream. We all had.

had four days again, but I never came and they couldn’t come to me. They were so upset, the last vestige of good they had coveted for themselves was gone. In the end they just felt pain,

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 went to get

cannot happen,” Master Christof said, “you are not like us. You

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