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.

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

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

have permission to be here only,” she’d

free days are over.

E L A ‘s L I B R

in. They were sure something had happened to me. Their

a long time. They were too weak to hold their family together. I could be

shaking. Master Christof was shivering behind me and

We all had. The weight

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

them finally like that 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 went to

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

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