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Instead of returning to the dining hall where the Ravens would be waiting to seize me, I called upon the slumbering Shadow within me. As a Shadow Walker, I didn’t need an earthly tether to keep me from getting swallowed by the Veil. I could exit anywhere I wanted, but the Midnight Ravens didn’t know that.
This would buy me a brief window of opportunity to say goodbye to the people I loved and get out of there. That was the only way to protect them from the wrath of Commander Folk and Ormslang’s manipulations.
I had to disappear.
Before they figured out I was never returning to the space they were watching, I’d be long out of there.
The pictures in my mind were vivid and lively, waiting to be found, to be recalled. They came with warmth and playful emotions. Ryoko’s smile, the gold
