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Labyrinth (11) Chapter Eleven Windows in the Wilderness The Skeletons were hauling (Fn) along as though she were a reluctant donkey. She was certainly reluctant. She could not see the castle anywhere, and when she asked them how far away it was they answered with whoops and cackles. The clock was ticking toward thirteen all the time. So perhaps she was indeed a donkey for having got herself into this mess. She tried to figure out where she should have made a different choice. It was impossible. Suppose she had not approached Horuss, right at the start, but walked the other way around that great wall? Might she not, by now, be back home, wi

You decided that you definitely heard it come from upstairs. Once you reached the top you chose to try the first door you saw. A cracked dirty white door. You hesitated for a moment, before grasping the door handle and turning. The resonating sound of 'click' told you where successful. Pushing the door open you shuffled inside and felt the wall for a switch. Muttering to yourself when you found none you were about to turn and leave when a sudden movement in your peripheral caught your attention. Sat in a window seat, one leg pulled up against his chest (at least you assumed it was a he due to his build) was a man in a hoodie as dirty as th

Chapter Seven The Meaning of Life (FN) joined Horuss on the top rung of the ladder, gratefully clutching the side of the open hatchway. It felt like firm land after a voyage at sea. They were looking at a garden, where birds were singing. It was surrounded by well-trimmed hedges, and they ran so straight, with neatly cut openings in them, and turned such precise right angles, and the lawn was so flat and tidy,that the garden was like a green box, with the blue sky for a lid. It was a rather formal garden, with carefully positioned stone monuments. On the stones were runic carvings, and a few faces -- more of those Phony-Warnings, (FN) decid

Labyrinth (6) Chapter Six Up and Up (FN) gasped. The whizzing blades were rapidly drawing nearer. Horuss was prodding pathetically at the great door and mumbling to himself. But (FN) wasn't listening to him. She was looking around for an escape -- above, below. She dashed along the side walls, looking for a handle or button. There had to be some way out. That was how the Labyrinth worked. There was always some trick, if only she could find it. The clanking, whirring  noise was louder. She glanced momentarily at what Horuss was doing. He was still just scrabbling at the door. It was no use trusting to him. What could she do? What? Her eye