Charlotte smiled. Anne pulled a face at him. And in the upper hall were David and Anne, and Aunt Elizabeth coming to greet them with effusive hugs and kisses. The blood of their messiah, quite literally.
They teased me, bullied me, excluded me from their friendship. She recoiled from him, close to passing out with terror. The perpetual swirl and change of the Crystal Ring sometimes made them hard to find, but the magnetic patterns always led him to them eventually. The power of Karl's presence was a tangible darkness, radiating fear into the room.
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