“The light in the hall was now so faint, Beatriz couldn’t see clearly. Thin, twisting shapes rose from either side to meet overhead, like branches, over a path in a forest. It’s like I’m on a nature hime, she thought. She stopped for a moment. But it wouldn’t be this dark at ten in the morning. She looked back. A few yards behind her the hall shimmered. Ahead was a darkening forest. She took a deep breath and kept going.

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