Suddenly, she disappears again. I look up at the starless sky then down at my hands. A purple and blue mist is making my fingertips glow like neon lights. I wave them around as a ballerina would and the colours blow into the night. Amazing! Am I now a fairy? Kat returns, with the ocean's fierce howl in the backdrop, and transforms from a shadow to lightning. Electricity dances before my eyes. And as she moves closer, my eyesight weakens with each step. But I can still feel her presence towering above me, like a hint of evergreen.
"Hello," she says, back to the whispery voice. "Take my hand."
Darkness falls upon us again. I step forward anyway; then stop and feel around.
"Where are you?"
She laughs. "Can't you smell me?"
"The evergreen?"
"And the other thing?"
I sniff the air. Nothing.
"Stop it! I don't like this."
"How can it be that you fear both the darkness and water that once nurtured you?"
"I only fear what I can't see."
"Mary, if it's the darkness you fear, you'll never be able to create anything."
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NINE TIME MACHINES: Do you want to undo your entire life on planet earth?
FantasyThere is a war coming! In it, Lilith and the impostor God must battle for all human minds on earth. But one girl can stand in the gap for all humanity. However, to prove worthy for this feat, Mary must begin shadow work to take the mark upon herself...
