Who am I? Who is Danyel. Twin. Brother. Son. We live in a cottage with Leiwell and Map, Tayel and I. No one visits the empty field and forest, the neighboring garden with the ruined tower overlooking us all. Why are we here alone? Map says she’s protecting us. Leiwell says the same thing, every night he slips out to serve his lord. Where does he go? Up to the tower? No one can possibly live there, yet it feels like it’s watching us. Why do we have this garden, yet my brothers and I eat so little, sustaining each other with our company? Map warns us to eat more, so we’ll be more solid and real, connected to the world. She can eat more than any of us. What is this world she speaks of? I only know of it in stories, the few books Map brings to us. One of them is about Ashleigh, Ashleigh Beyond the Door, our other mother. We’ve never met her, yet we look like her. We’ve known no mother, except Map. Sometimes the air whispers to us. Sometimes I dream of other people, in other places. What does it all mean? Tayel warns me not to ask questions. Every question opens a Door. Something might come through that Door we don’t like. Isn’t possible for us to walk through that Door? It seems like I’ve been waiting for the right Door to walk through. Tayel is terrified it’ll take me away. I’m terrified, too, but I’m also curious. I can’t help being curious, even if it isn’t wise.
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