“Silence took hold as it always did when they reached the side streets, moving through the shadows like the night incarnate. Thorn’s mother used to tell her that she’d been born with dark eyes and dark hair because the universe wanted to protect her. She could blend in with the forest during the day and fold into the darkness like a child of the moon.”
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“There is no way you can understand the spirit of darkness when you have a candle in your hand!”
“Her mother’s love was the only cloud of solace for her in the darkness around”
“If I've been some kind of light to you, know I was not lit from the outside.”
“It is a waste of energy to open your eyes, or to keep them open, when it is completely dark.”
“Death had wrapped her in a cloak so lithe.”