The Duke in His Castle
“The purpose of this outer room open wide to the elements is unknown, buried in the past. Mayhap it once serves as an herb garden, a meeting room for secret lovers or conspirators, a place to isolate unruly children or to keep domesticated beasts and their feed troughs. Now, there is nothing here but beaten dirt for a floor, with possible slabs of stone buried deep underneath, with high walls that are looming above them on all four sides like mountains, engendering the illusion of being at the b...ottom of a well. There is but a patch of ink sky overhead, with several pinpoints of stars. The butler, Harmion, directs servants to set up a narrow long table and two chairs. No one is in the mood for sitting, however. The funeral box is placed on the tabletop which is covered by a long spread of chamois cloth, with two candles on both ends, sending tiny feeble light into the nighttime blackness. They are safe from high winds here, the candles and their droplet amber flames. Safe, yet oddly vulnerable to a possible wrath of sky. . . .MoreLess
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