Chapter six
Waxmoon + Unda + ProxWhy did you take me away from the Darkness? I was happy there.
He sighs. I had no choice. You are needed to right a great wrong on Yrth.
She knows that this is true, for her Guardians told her long ago, when she first formed out of the stuff of Darkness. Will you come with me, Angel?
He cannot. Ben’aryn pushes her into the Vortice and listens to her terrified screams as she falls. Then he disappears again, confident that the trees will send her on her way.
There will be other tasks, but for now he has only to pray — and to wait.
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That night, Gwenn already lay awake, waiting, when Arkady slipped silently into her room. After her conversation with the stallholder in the marketplace, she was hoping she might have another chance to talk to him. Bu
