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He could feel it in the air: the sizzling restlessness of the evening, the way the shadows - the Darkness, he knew, though he was unsure how - played and lapped at his feet like water, the disturbance in the skies as the stars lit up the night sky, the way it seemed that darkness was arriving, rather than the light leaving. He looked up at the sky. This was a premonition, and Johan, in between worlds, on the path to the Osiris cafeteria with the Obelisk dorms behind him, knew what it meant. He grazed his hand across the empty deck holder around his waist. It was time to go to the rooftops.