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Authors: A. R. Meyering

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The Angel of Elydria (The Dawn Mirror Chronicles Book 1) (63 page)

Hector shook his head and sighed. “I simply will never understand you.”

When Penny’s note was done, she crept upstairs to her mother’s room and opened the door. It was dark inside and seemed foreign in a way it never had before. On her mother’s pillow she laid the note, which explained that Penny was doing fine, that she would be back one day and for her not to worry. Penny could not help but shed a tear when she thought of her mother reading the letter. It fell short of what Paulina deserved, and she knew it. Penny removed the rune pendant from around her neck and laid it on top of the note, knowing that her mother would understand its meaning and realize that it was indeed her daughter who had come by that night. She stood by her mother’s bed for a long moment, running her fingers across the covers and smelling Paulina’s familiar lavender fragrance. With a final glance around, Penny stepped into the hall and closed the door.

Hector was waiting for her in the center of the living room with his arms crossed. She sighed and looked around her old home, so much tinier than she remembered. Hector waited with the utmost patience as Penny gave her final, unspoken goodbyes to the house that was once hers. When she looked up at him with confidence, they both knew it was time.

Penny closed her eyes as Hector wrapped his lean arms around her and prepared to make the jump to Elydria again. The thought of what was waiting for her on the other side of the darkness made a bubble of hope expand in Penny’s chest. A world of infinite wonder that beckoned and called with its siren song; a world that had broken Penny apart and rebuilt her to be stronger than she ever could have imagined. She breathed in Hector’s familiar scent and dwelled on the faces of her friends and the unbreakable bonds that had transformed her forever. She felt Hector reach out and pull the two of them into the gap between realities, and Penny let the vestige of her old self slip away like a gossamer shawl falling from her shoulders.

As the silence and speed overtook her body, Penny could not stop herself from smiling as she dreamed of all the wondrous things to come.

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A.R. Meyering is a graduate in English from the University of California Santa Barbara with a specialization in Victorian/Neo-Victorian Literature. She is the author of the steampunk-fantasy series The Dawn Mirror Chronicles. She is also the author of the dark fantasy

Unreal City
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which won quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest and garnered a positive review from Publisher’s Weekly.

Her heart pounds for the horrifying, the sublime, the delicate, the elegant, and the fascinating. She is a life-long fan of fairy-tales, gothic horror-shows, clever mysteries, children’s stories that aren’t quite for children, steam-powered wonders, and sweeping fantasies. She is a dedicated geek and gamer, an educator, and pug enthusiast.

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