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He’d written him again that day. Letters, stretching out into the Void, in dark ink and untidy scrawl. Crumpled up and cast into the sea; it was as close as they would ever get.

Like fireflies, on the coast of Eversong, caught between his hands. Dim light flickering between his fingers...there was nothing there when he looked inside. A spectre of himself, of what they were. And he was a long way away from nights like that.

The weeks had passed in highs and lows, tidal pulls all his own. Finally he found himself splayed out on unwashed sheets, staring into shadows whose language he didn’t know.

Lore, of course, was born knowing. It was as his mother tongue.

All that time… and maybe it was only a blip in his entire life, a...