Valaris’ period of darkness lasted twelve
nights and the appearance of the new moon was cause for celebration throughout
the land, therefore the capital letter title ‘New Moon’. Valarians were a
superstitious people who saw the dark moon- called ‘Dark Moon’ or ‘Moondark’-
as a symbol of the bad in the world, a punishment, although they intellectually
understood the cycles of the planets and their satellites around the sun. It
was a contradiction that defied logic.
Elsewhere on Valaris many were commencing celebrations,
those not overcome by sinister clouds and pervading mists, and still without
the fears a darak climate brought. In the clearing the rising of the moon
brought with it anxiety. There was no light from above to soften the dark.
As the moon brightened to a sliver of its usual
blue intensity elsewhere, a whirlwind descended out of the ether and swirled
and danced around and around the gathered, ever closer, teasing, taunting,
scattering leaves and twigs, pulling up clumps of grass and clods of soil, and,
sheltering their eyes from this storm, the gathered moved closer together.
Kylan and Kisha clutched at each other, recognising the whirlwind as Infinity,
and Averroes used Rain as a shield.
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