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[northseaflotsam]

There's a time and a place, as any competent witch will tell you, to go mucking around with other dimensions. The heart of Orkney is not really the place, civilized though it's grown over the years -- still poised between the ocean and the sky, the old stones and the cairns, between the dark men of the sea and the dark things under the hill -- and

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[thespaewife]

Clar opens the door almost before he can touch it, an empty pie plate on one hip.

"Showoff," she says.

[northseaflotsam]

He grins. "Happy birthday."

[thespaewife]

Her mouth quirks. "Inside," she says, and steps out of the way.

[northseaflotsam]

He ducks through the door obediently. "If I was showing off, I'd let you think I got here on the first try."