There’s a special moment right before you fall asleep, or before you wake up…you know the one I mean? Where you have one foot planted firmly in reality and the other rests tentatively in the realm of dreams. It’s a split second where everything and nothing exists all at once, where magic and science, math and fantasy, yesterday and tomorrow all live and mingle in the same space. It’s only there in that place that men and gods, human and faerie, mortal and ghost can see one another.

Some people spend their whole lives trying to find a way back there. They see it once, they touch their toe in that ocean of possibility, and it consumes them.

And then there are other people…people like you and I…who are there all the time. It doesn’t matter if we are awake or asleep, whether we are real or not. We’re always there, always here. And for us, time never ends, because it never started.

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