Morningstar (2011)
““Let it go, Owen. Release it.” My head dropped to her shoulder, my eyes squeezed shut, and painful sobs racked my frame. At last I felt the cool breeze upon my back and sensed the coming of the dawn. Pulling back from her, I forced a smile.
“I am ashamed of myself, wailing like a child.”
“Where there is pain, there is often a tear or two.”
“Yes, but the pain is gone now, back to whence it came, locked away. Where do we go today?”
“We find Mace,” she told me. “But first let us view the enemy.”
Moving back from me, she watched the sun rise behind a bank of clouds that turned to gold before my eyes, the sky around it turquoise and blue. I felt my soul swell at the beauty of it. Slowly the sun rose through the golden cloud, and its rays pierced the flesh of vapor, spearing down to strike the rock face and the cave, illuminating the rear wall.
Megan gestured with her right hand. The wall shimmered, flattened, glowed … and disappeared, becoming a window that looked down upon a long hall.
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