Time Crossed: a Time Thief Novella (A Penguin Special From Signet)
“The stone Animal Wall is one of my favorite places in Cardiff city proper. I was just a child when it was first carved, and have vague memories of being taken to see the original painted animals. Sometime in the early 1920s, about thirty years after it was placed outside of Cardiff Castle, it was moved to the edge of Bute Park, where it still resides.
“You’re looking as placid as usual,” I told my favorite animal where he sat atop the wall, the stone images by the floodlights planted along the base of the wall. Directly in front of me, a stone seal gazed serenely into the distance, his flippers poised in front of him as if he was about to leap off the wall. “You know, Mr. Seal, I used to think that a spell would turn you to flesh and blood, and I’d beg my moms to give it to me so that you could slip out into the bay and swim away. They never did.”
The statue said nothing, for which I was extremely thankful—the last thing I needed was an animated statue, or a nervous breakdown.
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