{"id":1188,"date":"2012-10-15T23:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T23:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2012-12-13T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:51:00","slug":"this-parting-has-come-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/10\/15\/this-parting-has-come-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"This parting has come too soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> It was a strange dawn. The Sun seemed reluctant to shake off the shackles of night and soar over the rim of the world. When it did, the rays it sent spinning across Midnight seemed cold and pallid. From the north a frozen mist was seeping over the hills and forests and plains and the dawn was silent, the air empty of birds, the earth untrodden by the chattering creatures of day. Even to Corelay the coldness spread and a nameless chill gripped men\u2019s hearts as they rose to greet the new day. Old warriors, in dread, whispered of Doomdark, for they had been touched like this before, but the rest simply shivered and tried, with small success, to shrug off their unreasoning fear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8211; Mike Singleton, Lords of Midnight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1189\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/10\/15\/this-parting-has-come-too-soon\/lom_header\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lom_header.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,464\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lom_header\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lom_header-300x135.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lom_header.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lom_header.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lom_header\" width=\"1024\" height=\"464\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lom_header.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lom_header-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/lom_header-500x226.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/02\/24\/the-lords-of-midwinter\/\" title=\"The Lords of Midwinter\">The Lords of Midwinter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/07\/a-moment-to-reflect\/\" title=\"A moment to reflect&#8230;\">A moment to reflect&#8230;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/12\/07\/the-moon-ring-the-last-of-the-great-war-rings-of-midnight\/\" title=\"The Moon Ring, the last of the Great War Rings of Midnight\">The Moon Ring, the last of the Great War Rings of Midnight<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/12\/05\/the-war-of-the-solstice\/\" title=\"The War of the Solstice\">The War of the Solstice<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/12\/02\/the-lords-of-midnight-are-coming\/\" title=\"The Lords of Midnight are coming&#8230;\">The Lords of Midnight are coming&#8230;<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a strange dawn. The Sun seemed reluctant to shake off the shackles of night and soar over the rim of the world. When it did, the rays it sent spinning across Midnight seemed cold and pallid. 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