Ivonne's povThe darkness i had fallen into was warm, which was the first thing that told me I was dreaming.Real darkness, the kind I had spent most of the past several hours inside was cold and heavy and had weight to it, the kind that pressed down on you and made you aware of your own smallness.This was different. This was the darkness of somewhere that had decided to be peaceful on purpose, and as I stood in it and let my eyes adjust, I realised I recognised the quality of it.I had been here before. Multiple times. Always confused, always slightly afraid, always uncertain what I was looking at or why.This time I wasn't any of those things.She was standing several feet away, her back partially toward me, her ethereal gown catching light that didn't seem to have a source.She turned slightly, as if she had heard me arrive, and I looked at her face, the face I knew, the face that had always been uncomfortably the same as my own and I smiled."Lady Ivanna," I said.She turned fu
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