The Erl-King-1
ty, ty of t t afternoon to itself; perfect transparency must be impenetrable, tical bars of a brass-coloured distillation of ligerstices in a sky bulge struck tine-stained fingers, ttered. A cold day of late October, acorn cups underfoot in t slime of dead bracken ing cold of ter t grips tigark elders mucumn o make you smile but it is not yet, not quite yet, t time of ting sense of t cessation of being; turning, turns in on itself. Introspective her, a sickroom hush.
tep betrees and ted to its original privacy. Once you are inside it, you must stay til it lets you out again for to guide you t safety; grass grerack years ago and nos and tle labyrintrees stir affeta skirts of round . tumbling croig in tted s, notle stream margins of mars it ime of t, blackiser to ice. All ill, all lapse.
A young girl o trustingly as Red Riding o t admits no ambiguities and, rapped in ly as it seems.
tem of Co anotimate perspectives of terloper, traveller oed distance t perpetually receded before me. It is easy to lose yourself in these woods.
tes of till air, as if my girliso a sound. ttle tangled mist in ts, mimicking tufts of old mans beard t flossed trees and bused fruit treats. One by one, to trees ts cradle of ripped branc I felt I al tle around me, I t t nobody me.
Erl-King will do you grievous harm.
Piercingly, noe as if it came from t of t bird left alive. t call, , directly to my .
I il its perspectives converged upon a