Chapter Four(18)
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After drifting for some unknown amount of ‘time’ in deeper sleep, Cecy’s vision brightened into a dream.
This dream was the afterward of the dream Cecy had when she got here. The girl with brown hair was fading into the night, and the gray wall obscured her figure, leaving no trace that she had ever been there, by Lydia’s side. Lydia didn’t move, her gray eyes unreadable, and for one second all the emotions seemed to have been wiped out from her features, leaving a blank surface where the crack through which the sunlight, so rare and precious because of it, was.
And then she turned, and lifted her hand, reaching for her top pocket just beside her heart, drawing out a brush that looked a bit like the one Will had used to draw the mirrors, before it had fallen into the debris of the library. Her thumb slid swiftly across the surface in an seemingly unconscious caressing jesture, and began to draw her simple oval, her doorway.
It was gold, like the sunlight that was not there, couldn’t be there, for it was midnight already.
After drifting for some unknown amount of ‘time’ in deeper sleep, Cecy’s vision brightened into a dream.
This dream was the afterward of the dream Cecy had when she got here. The girl with brown hair was fading into the night, and the gray wall obscured her figure, leaving no trace that she had ever been there, by Lydia’s side. Lydia didn’t move, her gray eyes unreadable, and for one second all the emotions seemed to have been wiped out from her features, leaving a blank surface where the crack through which the sunlight, so rare and precious because of it, was.
And then she turned, and lifted her hand, reaching for her top pocket just beside her heart, drawing out a brush that looked a bit like the one Will had used to draw the mirrors, before it had fallen into the debris of the library. Her thumb slid swiftly across the surface in an seemingly unconscious caressing jesture, and began to draw her simple oval, her doorway.
It was gold, like the sunlight that was not there, couldn’t be there, for it was midnight already.