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mind. "The question is do you wish to leave me, half-man?"
"I do not wish to be trapped her in this place, Ravel. It is your home, not
mine. I need to find my mortality, and become whole once again."
"No, know, no... know THIS..." Ravel raised a taloned finger, as if warning
me. "Know it is OUR home, my precious half-man. Two immortals shall we
be in this black-brambled garden, and I shall keep you safe from the Planes."
"Fair Ravel, you helped me when I came to you so long ago, and you have
done so again. I shall not forget what you have done. But now I must leave -
I have to know more about myself."
There was a terrible shimmering in the air around Ravel - and the sound of
snapping twigs and cracking tree limbs, and the horrid sound of the trees
bending and splintering...
"Wh--?"
Ravel's lips peeled back and her voice became shrill, like a howling wind.
"What do YOU know of KNOWING, half-man?! KNOW this: KNOW you will
stay here until the END DAYS in my brambled garden, never to leave, and
you shall LOVE me, as you were MEANT, as you PROMISED!"
I opened my hands, tried to calm her down, "I'm afraid I would be poor
company, Ravel. And I cannot stay in any event. I'm afraid you must allow
me passage."
"I shall NOT let you leave -I have the power to KEEP you here, and I shall USE
it. My black-barbed maze shall NOT allow you to travel beyond it while I
LIVE, my precious, precious man..."
"Ravel, I don't want to fight you... don't do this. Allow me passage, and I
shall return to visit you. You need not be alone in this place," my voice
became pleading, desperate. Behind me I could hear the nervous
unsheathing of blades.
"RETURN?! RETURN as you CLAIMED you would so LONG AGO?! No... no,
you shall not LIE to Ravel TWICE! No more CENTURIES will I WAIT for you..."
Ravel's lips peeled back as she shrieked, and her talons grew, lengthening
into fiendish claws. "Here in my garden you will STAY, and a-wander the
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