Of Things Unknown is a short story written by Seanan McGuire, included with the print version of The Brightest Fell.
And as imagination bodies forth
The form of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes . . .
—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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April O'Leary and Li Qin summon October Daye to Tamed Lightning. Her task is to help them restore the victims of Gordan's plot from A Local Habitation to their bodies. April, however, has a slightly different agenda - she wants her mother, January O'Leary back at any cost. She realizes that January's soul has been backed up after all and Gordan lied. Before Toby can arrive to restore ALH's dead, April summons the night haunts and more or less bullies them into making a new body for January. She tells the night haunts that if they do not restore January's body, April will not allow Toby into the knowe and thus the sleepers will never wake, never die, and never feed the night haunts. The night haunts create a new body for January, and Toby restores all of the souls to the sleepers, including January. April finally allows herself to feel forgiven for her part in January's death. Yui and Elliot are reunited, and Barbara, Colin, Peter, and Terrie are all restored to their bodies.
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