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

tried to get back to my compound to check on me, but Nu-reeh had stopped them. She’d taken their transport and scolded

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

your free days are over. You cannot go to

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with 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

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

shaking. Master Christof was shivering behind me and I turned to face him. He looked

had the same dream. We all had. The

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

here. She tried to help them,

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

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