Chapter 6I am still unsure how we came to the decision, or whether or not we laid out our plans as one does before battle. I remember only the fluttering of fear in my heart, the images of death that filled my mind when I closed my eyes. I was so completely caught up in him, my being centered upon him, that my own voice was a distant sound I ignored. Then … there we stood, in the early hours before the dawn, in the shadow of the home where I had been raised. It had grown in the years since I had last seen it, additions made as time moved and the Family grew. They were all within, locked behind dark doors before the coming of the light. We were silent and separate, as had become the normal for us. So much between us left so little to be said. At long last, I turned to him and we moved.
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