“When the rift stirs, it does not awaken the dark alone, but everything the light tried to forget.” The valley should have been quiet. Instead, it groaned. It started deep within the earth, so subtly it could have been mistaken for imagination. […]
“In the space between sleep and waking, something opened its eyes… and it was not alone.” Adonis had no reason to think there was anything unusual about the ball. It flew into the air as the one-year-old Great Dane played with it. […]