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I’ve watched night fall many different ways since I came to Dublin

When I first arrived, it often snuck up onno clear line of deirl fro Impossible to say "Oh, wasn’t that a nice sunset?" when you hardly ever saw the da and gloo you kneas night, as if there’d beendown so hard it frightened ate, the next I was virtually blind, navigating Shades in alleys of pitch and

And yet other tiht had fallen in infinitesi rainbow across the horizon for a half hour ora fat crimson halo to stain thefroas lae, and gold never before seen by huht, as I made my way back to BB&B from dinner with my family, the sky treated me to one of those slow, extraordinary sunsets, and with the True Magic binding me to the Earth, it touchedup at the sky, and cried I stood there with tears rolling down ht descend

Our world was sick, so diseased

And so da I could do to save it I’d come so far, defeated the Sinsar Dubh not once, but twice, by quirk of happenstance become the Fae queen’s successor, solved the riddle of theBut it was like having half a car, or half a gun or half a child

Useless

The prophecy hadn’t been quite right I wasn’t going to destroy the world

I was going to fail to save it

Dublin was a ghost town We’d been sending people off world as soon as they arrived, and as the city had ean to disappear With hu, they’d had no reason to remain in our town and repaired to Faery

Now they huddled, panicked, trapped at court, no more able to sift back out than I could sift in I could feel them, this race I was supposed to save, their shallow fear and unrest Their impatience and mistrust as they waited for their new queen toworld, unaware it was impossible

I’d not told them Apparently Cruce hadn’t either Only the prior queen had known their fate was irrevocably bound to the planet Cruce’s silence on that score was a blessing for which I was grateful If he’d been feeling vengeful (and God knows, he’d looked vengeful when I’d last seen him), he could have told both Courts the truth and led the out asus fro off world