How to Live Forever (2004)
“Except everything was different.
It had been the middle of the night when he sat down in the side room with the cat mummy and now it was early morning. The rising sun filled the whole library with a deep glow that crept in through the windows and shone on the ornate curved ceiling like gold. The clouds seemed to have come indoors with the sunshine. They hung nervously in the gloom at the top of the dome.
As the sun rose and the gold faded, a new light began, the light of a new day. The sky outs...ide the windows at the top of the dome grew darker yet the light inside grew brighter. Mist floated up from below and the grass beneath his feet … Grass, what grass? thought Peter.… was covered with dew.
Peter looked at his feet and where the steel lattice floor of the gallery should have been there was now soft grass. A well-worn path through the grass followed the curve of the gallery in both directions. A small bird flew down and sat on the railing a few feet away from Peter. It put its head on one side and, if it’s possible for a bird to smile, it smiled at him as if to say, ‘I haven’t seen you here before.’ Yet the grass wasn’t the big difference.MoreLess
It had been the middle of the night when he sat down in the side room with the cat mummy and now it was early morning. The rising sun filled the whole library with a deep glow that crept in through the windows and shone on the ornate curved ceiling like gold. The clouds seemed to have come indoors with the sunshine. They hung nervously in the gloom at the top of the dome.
As the sun rose and the gold faded, a new light began, the light of a new day. The sky outs...ide the windows at the top of the dome grew darker yet the light inside grew brighter. Mist floated up from below and the grass beneath his feet … Grass, what grass? thought Peter.… was covered with dew.
Peter looked at his feet and where the steel lattice floor of the gallery should have been there was now soft grass. A well-worn path through the grass followed the curve of the gallery in both directions. A small bird flew down and sat on the railing a few feet away from Peter. It put its head on one side and, if it’s possible for a bird to smile, it smiled at him as if to say, ‘I haven’t seen you here before.’ Yet the grass wasn’t the big difference.MoreLess
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