You can reduce your risk of shadow damage by staying in a spot of light from a fire or the sun. Avoid shadow exposure in the central hours of the night. Remember to reapply shadowscreen often (or risk getting devoured by the shadow realm forever.)

Then, the stones started shifting…

She took the leatherbound book out and began reading out loud,

“Little folk under the cobblestones,
you are commanded to bring me into the Unknown,
you are forbidden from stealing my skin and bones,
you’ll be released once your service has been done.”

Nothing changed at first.

An eternity and an instant later, you will reach the clearing, and it will be your turn to bask in the ray. It will be bright, but it will not be warm.

It does have a bias for too many typography-related puns per paragraph, but I guess that’s just due to its limited font of knowledge.

Every morning I choose my favorite letter of the alphabet for the day and let the electrical coils inside do the rest of the work, with the automata penning all of my letters in pristine Morse code.

The very last rays of sunset, skyscraped into arrow shapes, were converging on a single building entrance. And yet I doubted myself again.