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Nokht stirred the moment he felt his sister leave the pile, and peered curiously through wide mis-matched eyes at her as she wobbled out of the dark and into the light—a hallway soon to be well known to them, for now, inconceivable. The boy would spare a final glance to the security of the bed, and then rise.

He tilted his head once he reached her, over-sized ears suddenly widening to the sounds that bounced off the walls of the larger space.