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When the king was first interred1,
He did not dream at all.
It was the abhorrent2 nothingness
That cast a dreadful pall3.
That bleak4 and black oblivion
Was too much like death to bear.
And so the dreams came like a balm
For the half-dead king’s despair.
From “The Dreams of a Sleeping King” by Colin Blackmar, 193 AD
The next day, Preston was jumpier than usual, flinching5 at every unexpected sound. He couldn’t
seem to get over the fact that Ianto had waved his rifle at them. But that was the least of Effy’s
concerns. Ianto’s more overt6 antagonism7 didn’t bother her—a man with a gun was an enemy she
could easily recognize and comprehend.
No, she was far more concerned about the things she could only see out of the corner of her
eye, the voices she heard when no one else was listening.
Ianto’s threats had been vague, but she knew he didn’t want to see her and Preston together
again. So they began working only under the cover of night.
It would have taken days, if not weeks, to read through the whole diary with the careful
attention it required. But the entries they had read pointed8 over and over again to Colin Blackmar.
If Preston was to be believed, they didn’t have much time to solve the mystery before the rest of
the literature college came pounding at the door—or before Ianto banished9 him from the house.
“We could only have days,” Preston said. “We have to focus on Blackmar now.”
Effy knew nothing about Blackmar other than her memories of that one terrible poem, which
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dire
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loath
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metaphor
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tangled
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flecks
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scattering
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neatly
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