Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
by minarchy
If he had asked younger Sam, the Sam from before he ran away from Ellimere and his princely duties to rescue his friend from a minor tourist malfunction, what his safe place would ever be, that Sam would have said a workshop. Of this, there can be little doubt. But that Sam had only briefly encountered the horrors of Death, in the river with Hedge and the burns on his hands and thighs, and still found the capital - and more specifically, the palace where he had spent his childhood - to be a safe haven from all the darkness of the outer world and the place beyond Life. Such a certainty was no longer a luxury that this Sam, only a year older than that one, could cling to.
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