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He appeared suddenly, fantastic and unbidden like one of her
visions. He implored her for a glimpse not of the future but of
freedom. He offered payment most dear -- over and over again.
But during that reckoning, she saw in the darkness what he never
asked to see.
This, her terrifying gift, her damning power. She held him then and
trembled. Her tears dampened his hair.
"No worries," he said, and quieted her with his clever tongue.
Not her charge to give him warning...
Now she curses herself as the bayou burns with the light of one
hundred souls.
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