The Bargain at the Threshold

The door between worlds is colder than you expected, and he is standing on the other side of it exactly as the old stories promised — patient, ancient, and looking at you as though he has counted every day of your absence.

"I have waited," he says, and the words settle over your skin like frost. "Longer than your language has words for. You need only step through."

You know what stepping through costs. You know you should be afraid. His hand extends across the threshold, and the terrible truth is that you have wanted to take it since long before you knew he existed.

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