The transition into sleep was not a gentle fading of the mind, but a sudden, violent plunging into a sea of liquid gold.Rebecca didn’t find the cold, rough-hewn stone walls of her previous nightmare. Instead, she was swept away into a world of blinding, sunlit brilliance. She was running through an endless expanse of wild green valleys, the highland air warm and sweet against her skin, and the sky above an unbroken canvas of fierce, brilliant blue.And she was laughing. A deep, unbridled sound of pure, radiant happiness that seemed to echo off the mountains and stretch across the horizon as if it would never end.Behind her, the rhythmic thudding of boots against the earth signaled his approach. She turned, her long black hair whipping across her face, to see Lucian giving chase. He was a mortal man here, his skin flushed with a radiant, sun-warmed life, his silver-dark eyes sparkling with a jovial, unburdened wit she had never seen on the Sovereign Elder. He caught her by the waist,
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