“Portals can only appear at auspicious moments,” Zia said.
“Sunrise, Sunset, midnight, eclipses, astrological alignments, the exact time of a god’s birth-“
“Oh, come on,” I said. “How can you possibly know all that?”
“It takes years to memorize the complete calendar,”Zia said.
“But the next auspicious moment is easy: high noon.

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