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THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN THE WORLD HOLDS ITS BREATH When the very air seems to pause, as if time itself has taken that last deep breath before

The taste of salt and sweet row, until when it glided down my throat it was like a drink of cool, clear water, if it could hold the salt of oceans and the taste of blood

I saw the roo out of sync A cloud of deh I knew they had been forbidden to coed fey filled the rooonflies and damsel-flies, and insects that had never appeared in nature There seemed to be more of them than I knew had followed us into exile

The air was alive with color fros, so many of them that they made a breeze that played in s caoblins, as if the dogs did not care, and the goblins did not see the their dainty way through the crowded roo Red Caps as if they were a forest to er yet, the Red Caps did not react to the dogs

The dogs went to their masters The terriers went to Rhys Souard My two hounds came to me Minnie with her face half red and half white as if soo with his one red ear and the rest of hi for us

Frost&039;s voice came from behind me "Merry, what is this?"

It was Royal&039;s voice, fros, that answered "It is theFrost"

I stared up at the diminutive man "I don&039;t understand"

He serness to hi sensual, even sexual, about Royal Since he was the size of a large Barbie doll it was unsettling to say the least

"We wait but for one piece more" This came from Penny, Royal&039;s twin sister, who hovered beside him

I didn&039;t understand until the black hounds poured in like shadoith Darkness reen, and all the colors I&039;d seen in Doyle&039;s eyes when his h the door, leaning on the back of what looked like a black pony, a little bigger than the dogs But a flash of those black eyes and I kneas no pony It pulled its lips back to flash teeth as sharp as any goblin&039;s It was a Kelpie, though how it got here I had no idea The kelpies had been hunted and destroyed in Europe before we ever came to this country

Kelpies either lurked in water and drew their prey down like crocodiles or pretended to be ponies on land Then when soalloped to the nearest water They drowned their prey, or ate them as they drowned Most of their victims were children Children love ponies

Frost and I both said "Doyle" together