faun-eared

Updated: May 26, 2025

Down the alleys maimed statues stretched their arms like rows of whining beggars; faun-eared terms grinned in the thickets, and above the laurustinus walls rose the mock ruin of a temple, falling into real ruin in the bright disintegrating air. The glare was blinding. "Let us go in," I said. The old man pushed open a heavy door, behind which the cold lurked like a knife.

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