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    “Can you help me?” 

    The rain patters on Tommy’s hair, his shoulders, the ground. It touches the man but doesn’t seem to sink in. His clothes look no more than damp when they should be soaking. Tommy should know; his shirt is plastered to him. He wouldn’t be surprised if it was see-through. 

    Tommy blinks. The man asked him a question. He nods again, not quite trusting his voice. The man seems nice, so Tommy takes a step forward. 

    The man smiles. It… something is wrong, but Tommy can’t put his finger on it. “Thank you. I’m looking for someone.” The man tilts his head, and something gleams in his brown eyes. With the motion, a strand of wavy hair falls forward, but it all seems so perfect. The man is perfect. 

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    Or, Tommy is lost, alone and he needs help. Desperately.

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    All the stories warn against going into the woods, warn about creatures hiding there. They say there are lilting voices singing from the shadows, promising glittering daydreams with sharp teeth. They say the creatures there will take you far away to never be seen again.

    There was a boy, the village whisperers, safely in the circle of light, glancing over their shoulders at the trees beyond it. There was a boy who strayed too far.

    They say you can still hear his laughter as it’s carried on a breeze, bright and wild, like youth frozen in amber, like ghosts falling delicate from the branches.

    (Strange things happen to boys who linger too long beyond the veil. Magic infects like a disease, like rot, eating away everything human that lingers, until his eyes are an unbroken summer sky blue and there are flowers in his hair and he sings with a voice that haunts the shadows.)

    (Here is our story: A boy goes home.)

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    Ramattra wondered if he had been needlessly cruel about the whole ordeal. It was an unhelpful thing to wonder that in no way affected him, but the thought clung to him, unshakable.

    Four months, fifteen days, eight hours, twenty-four minutes and forty-nine seconds since he last saw her. Since she pieced him back together, painstaking in her attention to detail, rebuilding a stranger that only intended to condemn them both to war. Foolishly naïve, blindly trusting. A paradox. The star around which MEKA and Overwatch orbited.

    And he could not remove the thought of her.

    (love, an interlude.)

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    Soon, Tommy began losing feeling of the half of him that wasn't in the puddle, the side that was being pelted by rain. He found that he didn't mind, as it dulled the pain of his injuries to point where he could pretend they didn't exist.

    Tommy was so wrapped up in his head he somehow didn't hear the heavy footed steps of a creature much much larger than him, nor was he aware of the dragon's breath puffing out in great clouds of white fog above him.

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    title from Edgar Allen Poe
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    Children are a liability in the apocalypse. They're needy and loud and messy, they can't fight or run very fast, and if there was an dictionary (apocalypse edition!) definition for "children" it'd be "deadweight".

    So its not too surprising when Tommy is cast out from Dream's group.

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