"Aurora drew closer to the others—a man and a woman, both strangers to her but companions for this journey."
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"When she cast the light of her torch on them, she saw them for what they were—the mushrooms were feeding on the corpselight of a corpse."
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"the body's cloak of moonlight-coloured tresses was shot through with fine threads of silver—Rory had heard some of these were weaved at a lunar event none saw with their waking eyes, where on the celestial loom of Somnus the fates for each strand of life were decided—moonsilver."
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"She could see the portal closing, see the unmoving forms returning to normal—time had stopped, and now it was flowing back into reality, back into the too-real nature of the Grove, back to the mortal-weary realm of Hel."
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"It had happened again—time dilation, she thought, the dilation of time."
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"And it would continue to happen until—what?"
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"They were still oblivious—she couldn't speak to them of her experiences without sounding mad, or, worse, becoming wanted by the Wardens, like her father before her."
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"\"No. I'm bound to the truth, so you see. 'Tis the language of this realm; Englissh. Now no deadly charms nor necromancy will've sway over ye, nor the life force reflected in this steel will ever be bound nor bent.\""
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"—Shit."
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"She was going to—No."
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"You must get back—Rory inhaled slowly, still and alive, listening to her heart; it pounded against her chest swiftly and desperately."
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"It was as if the noise of London had faded with each step, leaving behind a hush that seemed to reverberate across centuries."
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"The fae and the nondescript mortal were suspended in mid-move, as if time had stopped mid-step, and Nyx was a living shadow, his outlines visible as if hidden b…"
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"A faint amber light encircled the group, and the scene changed, as if the stones were a portal, projecting a picture of something ancient and akin to a mental i…"
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"Through a glimpse of towering columns, she saw large sprawls of land all the same, as if the grove was not a small hidden sanctuary, but an immense forest."
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"She remembered her Heartstone and reached for it, feeling its heat, pulsing in her palm as if its warmth had awakened."