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Standing there, shivering in the chilly wind, Will Stanton needed no one to tell him that danger was near. He was now the last of the Old Ones, protectors of the Light against the rising Dark. He had always known it would come to this. The prophecy in Susan Cooper's 'The Dark Is Rising' had promised so much more. 'When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn them back,' it had said. But now, it was only him.