A/N: This is actually a drabble - I'm expanding my horizons.

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His spell falls on me, and wraps itself around me and presses. Hard. I sense the intent behind the spell – the Starsnuffer seeks to stop me. But he cannot – at least, not yet. I burn on, throwing light down to Nita and Kit – he's looking up at me, sadly but knowingly, but she's bent down, reading from the Bright Book, thank the Artificer – and up into the heavens, lighting up the moon for Nita, for this planet's life. My light is dimming; I am nearly spent. But another light is growing, and it embraces me, and pulls me into it…