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And Edmund’s heart is unshielded, then. He takes it in. The world pours into him, it pours into him, it fills him with its darkness and its light, he staggers to his feet and then falls down, and he cannot stop it, the noise, the light, the life, the death, the all of it, he screams, and Fenris Wolf cannot shield him, nothing can shield him, until Mr. Gulley is home to shelter Edmund’s heart in his two strong hands and hire two stronger carpenters to make his son six fine new walls of mahogany, balsa wood, and teak.

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