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Chapter 23
The human mind, it is said, works by creating associations between experiences, memories, objects, and ideas.
Despite all signs to the contrary, Brendan would seem to be a human.
For how else could he explain the way his mind seems to have - without his permission - bridged an association between Alcina and the benediction of reprieve from his nightly terrors?
Undoubtedly, the way that Brendan finds his gaze and his attention drawn to Alcina like the subconscious weight of a gravitational pull.
It can only be explained by the mysterious abnormalities of how the human mind works.
She is unlike anything Brendan has ever laid eyes upon before.
She is not immune to the fears that plague all men. Still, unlike any man Brendan has known before, she seems impervious to the kind of paralysis that confounds all men in the face of their fears.
The comparison of the pretty, delicate features contrasts with the surprising strength of tempered ste
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