Midnight Never Come
“There are rooms such as these in the Onyx Hall, forgotten corners, left vacant when their owners died or fled or fell from favor.
For him, they feel like home: they are neglected, just as he is.
He came in by the door, but now he cannot find it again. Instead he wanders to and fro, from one wall to another, feeling the stone blindly, as if the black marble will tell him which way to go, to be free.
One hand touches the wall and flinches back. He peers at the surface, leaning this wa...y and that, as a man might study himself in a mirror. He stares for a long moment, then blanches and turns away. “No. I will not look.”
But he will look; there is no escape from his own thoughts. The far wall now draws his eye. He crosses to it, hesitant in his steps, and reaches out until his fingers brush the stone, tracing the image he sees.
A face, like and unlike his own. A second figure, like and unlike her.MoreLess
For him, they feel like home: they are neglected, just as he is.
He came in by the door, but now he cannot find it again. Instead he wanders to and fro, from one wall to another, feeling the stone blindly, as if the black marble will tell him which way to go, to be free.
One hand touches the wall and flinches back. He peers at the surface, leaning this wa...y and that, as a man might study himself in a mirror. He stares for a long moment, then blanches and turns away. “No. I will not look.”
But he will look; there is no escape from his own thoughts. The far wall now draws his eye. He crosses to it, hesitant in his steps, and reaches out until his fingers brush the stone, tracing the image he sees.
A face, like and unlike his own. A second figure, like and unlike her.MoreLess
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