The City of Dreaming Books
The City of Dreaming Books
“At sporadic intervals I came across food and water, which had obviously been left out for me, and I sometimes heard rustles in the darkness while vainly reconnoitring Shadowhall Castle’s nightmarish architecture, but this was all that enabled me to infer his presence.
I had reached a tacit understanding with the Animatomes: we left each other in peace. They no longer fled in panic when I entered a room, though they respectfully stood aside when I crossed it. I sometimes threw them a few of the ...desiccated bookworms of which my meals consisted and, although hesitant at first, they didn’t spurn them.
As for the Weeping Shadows, I was never sure if they registered my presence at all, or if their presence occupied another dimension that happened to coincide with ours at the point where Shadowhall Castle was located. From time to time I would glimpse one gliding through the eternal twilight, sobbing. Then my heart became heavy and I welcomed its disappearance.
Once, when I was lying sleepless in the semi-darkness, one of them entered the room and enshrouded me in its shadowy self with a sigh.MoreLess
I had reached a tacit understanding with the Animatomes: we left each other in peace. They no longer fled in panic when I entered a room, though they respectfully stood aside when I crossed it. I sometimes threw them a few of the ...desiccated bookworms of which my meals consisted and, although hesitant at first, they didn’t spurn them.
As for the Weeping Shadows, I was never sure if they registered my presence at all, or if their presence occupied another dimension that happened to coincide with ours at the point where Shadowhall Castle was located. From time to time I would glimpse one gliding through the eternal twilight, sobbing. Then my heart became heavy and I welcomed its disappearance.
Once, when I was lying sleepless in the semi-darkness, one of them entered the room and enshrouded me in its shadowy self with a sigh.MoreLess
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