I'm a bit of a writer and was wondering what folks opinions are on the following. I just knocked it up in the past half hour to stick up on my website and realised that some of you folks might be interested... BTW I haven't checked it for grammer or spelling yet so don't worry about that![]()
An Old Place
It was an old room. Fustiness and dust layered the age cracked stones with inches of grey silveriness undisturbed for thousands of years. Pentagonal in shape, four of the room's five walls contained high open windows and one rotton door of which there was barely enough material left in the frame for it to be said to be hanging off its hinges.
If one strolled through clouds of floating dust motes over to one of the windows then a view like nothing on earth would greet you. High overhead a cold silver light shone feebly on the ramparts and crenellations of a rectangular fortress city below. Dark, deep shadows clung to the many layered walls, engulfing the once living citadel in an omnipresent gloom. The tower that held the room at its peak rose high above the clutching grasps of the conquering shadows, sprinkles of light dancing across its surface as if taunting the glowering darkness below. Beyond the confines of the fortress nothing could be seen. The darkness was total and oppressive, a living thing that breathed in silence and was ever watchful. Occasionally, very occasionally, if you were unlucky, a darker, deeper shadow could be seen moving silently in the night.
And the purpose of this room? This stark room held so far from the repellant darkness holds but one object, a treasure beyond compare, an item so powerful it was hidden away by its original owners beyond the sight of the brave new world above. In the centre, you can see it. A giant metal cauldron, moulded in the shape of a strange fish with its mouth held unnaturally wide open, its fins forming a tripod on which it can sit. The cauldron gleams and sparkles far more than it should do considering the weak light that filters into the room. It takes a moment for you to realise what's so different about the cauldron. It's not dusty. In fact the dust forms a low wall round about the artifact as something keeps it at bay.
This city will be desecrated soon. You can see the yellow beams from the invader's lights shining across the cavern towards the fortress, repulsing the inky darkness that for so long laid claim to this long forgotten place. The cauldron of long lost legend may once again be recovered.


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