“She has this book,” he said, holding up the one in his hand as if it were the book in question. “Has all kinds of pictures. Illustrations. The text’s faded in places, but she knows that damn thing from cover to cover, so it never mattered. I daresay I know it by heart by now, too. ‘Fae creatures of the Gilarian Mountains,’ it’s called. There’s a note written on the first page. It says, ‘Never forget. Monsters thrive best in the dark. Commit all you read here to memory. Prepare for war!!’
