First sentence meme ask:
There was a time when you were not a friend of the dark places, and shied away from the groves where the high trees clustered together most thickly.
Thank you so much for this @traveleorzea! Here we are:
"There was a time when you were not a friend of the dark places, and shied away from the groves where the high trees clustered together most thickly."
Her eyes, so strange now, so cold and dead, looked...through him as though she saw a world invisible to his eye.
He shuddered with a violent chill and felt that particular otherness that made him want to flee like a frightened child.
"I did not know then what I know now," she answered, but her tone was so flat and he almost thought that something else was speaking with her mouth.
"I want to help you," he pleaded, "do not walk the path of Persephone, I beg you."
For one brief moment, he thought he saw his friend again as the blue eyes flashed, but it was gone as swiftly as it had come.