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It’s beautiful here in the shadows, he told her, holding out his hand so she could clasp it and he could pull her across into the darkness that lulled him. She smiled shyly up at him, her eyes bright with trepidation, wonder and hope. The sun bathed her in yellow, and it burned his eyes to look at her, but he held her gaze, intent on pulling her over into his world. It was so much better here, so much cooler. Her white dress billowed around her, in sharp contrast to the creamy brownness of her skin. Suddenly she stepped forward. A breath hung in the second that it took for her delicate ankle to disappear into the darkness. Fear rose up in her like bile. It was so dark. And yet the burning eyes of the stranger compelled and comforted her, and she stepped eagerly into the circle of his arm, feeling safe again within his embrace.