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The Knight and the Dreamer
100 Faces in 100 Stories — No89
1 min readMar 30, 2023
I told Lyssa there was no point in staunching the wound. The damage had already been done.
Tears collected in her eyes as she pressed her already-bloodied hands over the hole in my stomach. “No, I can do something. Jori, please, I can help you — ”
I lifted my own blood-stained hand to Lyssa’s cheek. “Princess, you have to go. You’re the Dreamer. Everything depends on you now.”
My dear friend closed her eyes, tears slipping down her cheeks. “I can’t, Marjorie. Not without you.”
“You have to. I’ll haunt you forever if you don’t.”
And she laughed.
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