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.

despair I’d escaped only a few days before started to creep back in. They had wanted to be together with

to get back to my compound to check on

have permission to be here only,” she’d growled

transport back when your free days are over.

L A ‘s L I B

and hopelessness set in. They were sure something had happened to me. Their family was ripped and torn, never to be whole again.

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 we could not

shivering behind me and

looked at Master Christof he had had the same dream. We

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 were so upset, the last vestige of good they had coveted for themselves was gone. In the end they just

brought them here. She tried to help them, but there was nothing she could do. They whispered

are not like us. You are

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