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“Why can’t you see that I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my life?” Her voice still had that echo effect where he could here a deeper voice beneath her higher range. “I want this happiness for you, too, if you’ll just let go of your fear and take me.” He thought she meant the mountain and that the creature wished to return to its original dwelling.
“Take you where?” There was that laugh again.
“Why, on this bed, silly,” she teased. She stepped up and rubbed her body against him. He lifted his arms to push her away, but the tendrils caught them and pulled them behind his back. They wrapped around his wrists like handcuffs, and were twice as strong. She leaned in and her cool breathe brushed against his shivering skin. “You know this is what you want, too. You’re the same as
