“I’m being abducted,” says Nightjar, “by someone named Killington?”<\/p>\n
“Mmm,” says Killington.<\/p>\n
“That doesn’t bode terribly well,” she says.<\/p>\n
“You don’t need to be afraid, little girl,” he says, grinning a knockaround grin. “Think of it this way: you’d be in more danger if I were my parents.”<\/p>\n
“Oh?”<\/p>\n
“They named me that.”<\/p>\n
“Oh.”<\/p>\n
Killington plays with cranks and sprockets, and the fire below the balloon turns from blue to white. They rise slowly to pass between two loops of road.<\/p>\n
“My parents,” says Nightjar, stumbling a little, “named me Nightmare.”<\/p>\n
“I know they did,” says Killington, and his smile disappears.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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