“What indeed. Perhaps the stars will deign to tell you if you ask them. Not here though, their eyes can’t spy us here.” A flash of teeth and eyes without irises, the pupils black holes which devoured the pale blue light surrounding us. I looked up again, paying more attention to the cavern, noting what it was, or at least what it mimicked. “You hide in an amplification chamber,” I noted. “I tried that once too.” “Did it work?” she purred, bare feet pressing into the stone, legs forming above them like grains of sand building her up bit by bit. “At the time, yes. We hid what we were doing from
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