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Moths
![The Metamorphosis [Franz Kafka] by Franz Kafka](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579650631l/50620028._SX98_.jpg "The Metamorphosis [Franz Kafka] by Franz Kafka")
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The young Prince arrived in this world, lost and very frightened. The thread he had followed was broken, and he had no means of spinning another. His friend, the Spider Mage, was too far away to hear his cries, and this world of cruelty and noise was too much for him. Even the air was unbreathable. And so he crept into World Below, and wept to himself in the darkness. As he wept, his grief was so great that he broke into a cloud of butterflies and moths, each one a fragment of himself, that scat
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― The Moonlight Market
― The Moonlight Market
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He doesn't fall like the others. Instead of blood pouring from his wound, red moths stream out, in to the air. They rush out of him so quickly that in a moment, the High King's body is gone and there are just those red moths, swirling up in to the air in a vast cloud, a tornado of soft wings.
But whatever magic made them does not last. They begin to fall until they are scattered across the dais like blown leaves. The High King Eldred is, impossibly, dead.
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― The Cruel Prince
― The Cruel Prince
