There should have been a guard here.


    Light my path.


    why.  What was the impetus?


    appearance.  “How flattering.  Perhaps recognizing that will encourage you to make sense.  It should.”  His tone frayed on those words.


    known.


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    The figure flew up to become a silhouette on high.  Adwyn looked up the cliff wall.


    sense???—??you care about many things, but I don’t glimpse your self-sacrificing life amongst them.”  A pause.  “Is it simple cowardice, then?  Fear to tread near the shadow of the night?”


    Walk?”


    him.


    beast.”


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    “Do you care for spiders?”


    vermin.  Extermination befits them.”


    Death is an old friend.  We’ve had our disagreements, but she’s best kept at peace.  Adwyn felt something???—??bitter light on his fangs at this.


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