“The year was woven on the loom, finished and folded away upon the pile of other years in the tall chests of Time.”

—  Tanith Lee , Tales from the Flat Earth

Book 1 “Light Underground”, Chapter 6 “Kazir and Ferazhin” (p. 64)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Night’s Master (1978)

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