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.

together with me so badly and I had not come. They had

on me, but Nu-reeh had stopped them. She’d taken their

permission to be here only,”

bring your transport back when your free days are

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had happened to me. Their family was ripped and torn, never to be whole again.

a long time. They were too weak to hold their family together. I could be gone for many turns of the moon before they could know. It had to end

shivering behind me and I turned to

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

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, so they inflicted

help them, but

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

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