Every year they ask for the same stories. By now they must know them better than you do.
Well, you know, old stories are rather like old friends. Every once in a while, you have to drop in on them, just to see how they're doing.
BBridget
The night has a special magic to it, don't you think? This night, especially.
Halloween.
BBridget
In the Old Religion they call it Samhain. It's a night when the walls between the worlds grow thin, and spirits of the Underworld walk the Earth. A night of masks and balefires, when anything is possible and nothing is quite as it seems. Your city has its own magic as well.
I've lived here all my life, and yet it's as though I've never seen the city... until tonight.
You've seen so much of the violence and the hatred of my world. I wanted you to know that there's beauty as well.
Oh... I know that. Ever since the night I found you, Catherine.
Don't leave! She told me that this was a special night, Samhain. When the walls...
When the walls between the worlds grow thin, and spirits of the Underworld walk the earth.
Vincent, we can't waste it.
We must take what we're given. Three hundred days, a few months...
Or a single night.
Will you be tellin' me of her, then?
Who?
Your lady, the one who's breaking your heart... Ah, you didn't come to me just to say you like me books. Something about Ian and me struck close to home.
She brings me... such joy... and such pain. As I have never known. I have no place in her world, she has none in mine. Our bond endangers... everything. People I love, secrets I am sworn to keep, beliefs that I have lived by.
I'm sick to death of safety! Oh, I look at the city and...I want to touch it, to walk its streets, meet its people, and listen to its music. I want to see all of the things my father told me of, and I can't. Can you imagine how that feels?
Yes.
Sometimes, Vincent, we must leave our safe places and walk empty-handed among our enemies.
Oh it hurts... it hurts... but... it is such a sweet pain.
Father, surely, on this of all nights I walk among them in safety.
Safety! Vincent, there is no safety up there...for you or anyone else.
Sometimes we must leave our safe places, Father, and walk empty-handed among our enemies.
Those are Brigit O'Donald's words.
Those are true words, words that have opened doors for me. Let some light in on the dark places. You know what she means to me.
I do. I also know the danger of confusing the magic with the magician. Sometimes the person is smaller than the work, weaker, more frightened... more human. And I don't want to see you hurt, disappointed.
She will not disappoint me. Our lives are very different, but I am sure we will understand each other... I will not miss this opportunity. I must see her, talk to her.
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