Midsummer S Eve Quotes

“The two worlds formed before my eyes in gold dust: Camelot, towering above the cliffs with its marketplaces and forts and tiny knights jousting in the fields; Avalon, a riot of trees and waves through which beings flitted too fast to be seen. As I watched, they merged together, each going about their own business, oblivious to each other's affairs.
"They overlay each other," Merlin said, "separated by what we can call a veil. See?" I could see: a thin layer of light shimmering between the two worlds, like the sheen of a bubble or the gauze of a cobweb. "Usually that veil is impermeable. At different times and in different places, it thins. Midsummer's Eve is the thinnest it stretches, which is why we do rites on that night. But it can be glimpsed at other times. Dreams pass through it often. People with fae blood, like you, can usually see it better than most, and that ability can be taught and refined. Animals see it best of all.”
― H.G. Parry, The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood