the trouble with old days is that they belong to someone else. I couldn’t go back there, not the way I am now.” Faythe looked at her questioningly. “You can’t avoid change forever,” explained the Shopkeeper. “I loved the old Shop, with its tiny corridors and messy dead-ends. But we built all these new buildings for a good reason—we needed them. If I went back, I’d immediately be frustrated with all the same problems which annoyed me back then.” She snorted. “Except worse, because now I’m used to the solutions we built.” “I get it,” said Faythe. She often imagined going back to the Rock, but in
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