Wow, what an incredibly beautiful story - lovely prose, a gripping plot, great pacing, and characters that I did not expect to fall so in love with and really come to understand their personalities in so short a time! A wonderful tale about becoming myth and saving yourself and what really matters in life. Choosing to protect people, your people, choosing to value a single life the same as all other lives, because what is a community without it's people, and without it's principles? The myths and legends and stories that we tell each other through the long nights, to keep us going, they shape us, show us what's important, what we need to be... ahhhhhh I'm just in love with The Themes!!!

The only drawback is that I think some of the plot went a little over my head - I was so in love with the community we were introduced to and the struggles between what they had to do to keep themselves safe and their need to help others that this didn't really impact my enjoyment of the story, but I do wish I was a little less confused. (I struggle more with these complicated time travel/paradox plots than a lot of other people though, so, it's probably not all that confusing - the author kindly explained the parts I was lost at afterwards, and I really do think this is a case of, "I read half of this at 1 a.m." rather than it being an actual problem with this story.)

My favourite story of the anthology so far, and one of my favourite Whoniworks for sure! 4.5/5 (: