And stay till I come home again
He remembered that Merriman had said, long before, that the most dangerous peak of the Dark's power would come at Twelfth Night. Was that time now come?
—Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (1973)
—Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (1973)

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It clicked and it felt like being haunted. I want all this light out of dark we've been holding onto to mean something.