Folly as I know the suggestion to be, it would likely be wise to avoid whatever... new version of carnival has arisen near the city. The most innocent thing here is a usually a trap, and I would think we had all learned our lesson with the last visitors. I would hope, at the very least ( Read more... )

[There's a weary edge of desperation there, lurking behind bold words.]

Farah? Farah! Wait!

To have come so far... Only to be trapped in my own mind? No. He will not prevail.

...Even as the light dims, it remains. I learned that lessen well, did I not? She is with me, even here. I need only--

[A pause follows and a small, bewildered sound ( Read more... )