didn't I say the world was cruel

[Larkspur D'Angelo]

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     The ini. He knew that dark and terrible place. The monsters came from there. Tak came from there. Only a few times he had seen such a thing. It terrified him. It sickened him. Even now, a low and terrible whine rose from his throat, dying in the cold air. She comforted him, and this settled the noise. Both of his hands began twisting the soft leather of the reins, a nervous habit. “No,” he agreed, dropping his eyes. She explained that they were different, as they always had been. Somehow, their kind was marked. “Misery? Can you make a new dreamcatcher for me?” The last one had been destroyed after it had captured a terrible demon. All of his teaching had told him to burn it, and so he had—burning the demon that had come from the ini with it.

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