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.

in. They had wanted to be together with me

to my compound to check on me, but Nu-reeh

permission to be here only,”

free

N G E L A ‘s L I

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.

find the men that did not bring me and hurt them, but 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 they could know. It had to end if

was shivering behind me and

dream. We all had. The weight of their misery hung around

We 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, so they inflicted

she came to get them and brought them here. She tried to help them, but there was

Christof said, “you are not like us. You

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