The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.
You don__ approve?_ Joan asked, picking up on Delphine__ tone. __heir stories were for themselves, not the Mirrors.___hat do you mean?_ said Bea.__ertainly sometimes a good little character would find a lamp, and would not be so corrupted by the strangely endless possibilities of three wishes that they ended up causing more harm than they ever imagined. Those stories fostered belief, they were retold, certainly; but they were few and far between. Most of the genie__ tales showed the characters exactly who they really were, not when they were despised and degraded, not when they__ reached the gutter and been given licence to look at the stars. No, the genies showed them who they were when they were invincible. The characters, they try to forget stories like that.
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You don__ approve?_ Joan asked, picking up on Delphine__ tone. __heir stories were for themselves, not the Mirrors.___hat do you mean?_ said Bea.__ertainly sometimes a good little character would find a lamp, and would not be so corrupted by the strangely endless possibilities of three wishes that they ended up causing more harm than they ever imagined. Those stories fostered belief, they were retold, certainly; but they were few and far between. Most of the genie__ tales showed the characters exactly who they really were, not when they were despised and degraded, not when they__ reached the gutter and been given licence to look at the stars. No, the genies showed them who they were when they were invincible. The characters, they try to forget stories like that.
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