![]() ![]() And on the far shore a creature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders. ![]() Until they stood in a great stone room where lay a black and ancient lake. Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease. Deep stone flues where the water dripped and sang. Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. Their light playing over the wet flowstone walls. In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. He pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the stinking robes and blankets and looked toward the east for any light but there was none. His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. ![]()
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