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The barrier waited for her. It rested in the back of a cottage, at the end of a small lane, some distance from the nearby farming town that served as the market for goods and products. The land was good for farming, the weather was currently pleasant, and there was nothing that one would...

(The screen whirrs, the sound of a film projector starting up as a black and white countdown is displayed, moving from 10 down to zero. At the last, red curtains appear covering all sight, before they are pulled back, to reveal a town, as done in crayon and stencil, looking much like an 18th...