I heard her laugh in my mind—the sound like a chime, far too beautiful for her wickedness—and then she spoke. “Just because you do not say my name does not mean I do not know what you are up to, my pet.” Another shock of pain lanced through my head, and I fell to the floor, unable to move. “Tell me how you think you can be free of me when I created you,” she hissed, and it felt as though she were in my ear. I turned my head toward her voice, and while I could see nothing, I knew she was here because she was the darkness. She was the night that fell upon the world and the inky sky between the
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