Halloweenland
“These words went through Samhain’s mind as he made his way away from his stone palace into the wilderness. There were parts of his own world that he hadn’t been to in ages, and this was one of them. He remembered the mountains as being low and ugly, nothing like the magnificent peaks he had seen on Earth, but he remembered little else about them.
He missed Earth already and was surprised at the fact. He missed Ireland, and he missed Orangefield, the Adirondack mountains which ringed it like a halo of lush green. Though he had not been blessed with the sense of smell, he could almost feel the moist fecundity of those evergreens, those thick forested areas and even the wet furrows of the pumpkin patches after a rain. The air had shimmered then, and the soil was so rich and dark, it was a living thing itself.
Living things.
And he, the Lord of the Dead.
Perhaps that was it: after all these centuries, all this vast expanse of time since the beginning of life on Earth, when he had suddenly... found himself there and knew he had a job to do—after all these countless days and years of ushering the dead from Earth through his own kingdom—he suddenly realized that he didn’t hate life at all.MoreLess
He missed Earth already and was surprised at the fact. He missed Ireland, and he missed Orangefield, the Adirondack mountains which ringed it like a halo of lush green. Though he had not been blessed with the sense of smell, he could almost feel the moist fecundity of those evergreens, those thick forested areas and even the wet furrows of the pumpkin patches after a rain. The air had shimmered then, and the soil was so rich and dark, it was a living thing itself.
Living things.
And he, the Lord of the Dead.
Perhaps that was it: after all these centuries, all this vast expanse of time since the beginning of life on Earth, when he had suddenly... found himself there and knew he had a job to do—after all these countless days and years of ushering the dead from Earth through his own kingdom—he suddenly realized that he didn’t hate life at all.MoreLess
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