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back as the Flight Killer.
Eris said, “When his mind is not at rest—Elden, I mean—the dead grow restless. So I’ve heard.
“Kellin was the leader of the King’s Guard when my brother reigned.
red cricket wasn’t a snab, but the Snab.
it’s the stories of our childhood that make the deepest impressions
and last the longest.
“And Elden can open this Deep Well when it happens? That’s the legend?”
“And a creature lives in this Deep Well? The thing that turned Elden into the Flight Killer?”
“Yes,”
Gogmagog, the lurker in the Deep Well.
We must go up to go down. Trust me.
Elden was this world’s Cthulhu, as surely as Dora was the old woman who lived in a shoe and Leah was the goose girl.
the most basic story of all cultures, the one that says when you
deal with the devil you make a devil’s bargain?
“Nah, nah, sweetheart. Sticks and stones will break my bones, but
words will never hurt me.”
Seeing it made me feel like Peter Pan, that Prince of the Lost Boys.
The sundial gives life, but it also takes it away.”
One other thing: I have a Google Alert on my name, and over the last year I’ve seen many obituaries of those lost to COVID
who have enjoyed my books. Too many. I mourn the passing of each one and send condolences to the surviving friends and family members.
