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I couldn’t tell the hour that I was awoken, only that it was long enough that the fire had dwindled to embers. I sat up and rubbed the sleep from my eyes as I looked around. Two lumps lay beside me on the floor, and another was in the bed. One lump, however, was gone.
I froze and whipped my head to the spot beside me. Caius was gone. I clapped my hands over the blankets and felt his heat. Something came to my ears that made my blood run cold.
Singing. Sweet, cruel singing.
We journeyed long our hearts a-laden.
With our hopes held tight within us.
Found we now our own lost Eden.
In these fields where shines the dusk.
I flung off my sheets and scurried over to my grandparents. “Wake up!” I shouted as I shook both their shoulders. “Wake up!”
The only one I succeeded in wa
