Robert Bennett

cast a leery eye

There was also something wrong with the sky, though they had trouble deciding the nature of it:

And some wanderers found themselves thinking that the number of streets in Parma had mysteriously increased in the past hours

George took one look at the dark streets and the star-strewn sky and identified the feeling immediately. As strange as it was, he’d experienced the exact same thing once before, in his hometown of Rinton

“You see and hear and speak,” said the professor to his puppets, “and you do want. But you do not eat or sleep, or live, or dream.”

“No,” admitted Denny. “No dreams. No dreams for the dark. Just waiting, waiting.”

“Waiting for the light to crack through again,”

Men came to the lands, men built in the lands, and then they built things to empty the lands of men.