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“Did anyone hear me? I had to be outside, just for a little while. I had to walk, and think, and tell myself I was really here. But did they hear me? Did they lie in the dark, listening, trying not to scream? If they heard me, they kept quiet. But when I closed my eyes, I could hear them. In my mind, I could hear them scream. I could imagine how it will be. But now is too soon. I'll have to be more careful. It's not time yet. When I'm ready, when I start, I'll hear them scream for real. I'll never have to imagine it again.”

“He was waiting there for her beside the pool - a great black horse with shoulders like polished ebony and the water still streaming from his mane and tail. Morag stood and looked at him for a long moment. The great horse looked at her and never moved. “Will you trust me?” he had asked her the evening before, and she had trusted him then. She trusted him now, and so she walked towards him. She grasped his mane, and still the black horse never moved. She stood on a stone beside him, swung herself onto his back, and the black horse moved.”