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Out chasing kites and dragonets, loosing the track, jerking out of scrubs. |
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Getting clasped by the creepers of a tumbledown stone wall. |
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Shattered gargoyles on the ground. |
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Their eyes staring up on their pebble-drooling congeners and on moss grown sculptures. |
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Beheaded dismembered marble figures. |
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Corroded disembowelled marble humans. |
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Marble limbs sprawling. |
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Marble heads nuzzling. |
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Marble genitals gaping and heaving in the grass. |
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Marble fig leaves eroding on the compost heap. |
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Friezes on the walls where grotesque granite creatures revel. |
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Stone reptiles strangling stone gryphons. |
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Stone maggots consuming the struggling monsters. |
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Stealing through, you'd expect to find the skeletons of the |
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Sleeping Beauty's wooers in the hedges and perhaps her spindle and the witch inside. |
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Inside Rooms without walls. |
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Columns without ceilings to support. |
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The capitals shedding dead |
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Acanthus leaves which descend in slow motion to become parts of the rustling on the floor. |
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Doors leading nowhere. |
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Stairs spiralling into open air. |
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Formerly secret passages now exposed, leading deeper into the woods. |
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In one of the rooms a pile of tiny bones and a pointed hat atop of a tiny skull staring into the corner. |
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Strange... it seems as this palace decayed so quickly as if someone wanted to get rid of it. |
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As if the entire host of |
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Seraphim gathered in zenith and wept it away with toxic tears. |