gold and fled. Like Jack scurrying down the beanstalk. Only he was just a boy. I should have done better. If you go to that other world, where two moons rise in the sky at night and there’s no constellation the astronomers of earth have ever seen, you need to know certain things, so listen to me closely. The air of our world is fatal to the creatures of theirs, except I guess for the bats. I once brought back a rabbit as an experiment. It died quickly. But the air of theirs is not fatal to us. It is invigorating, in fact. The city was once a grand place but now it’s perilous, especially at
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