Walking in darkness

[miss_scarlet007]

By '87, we'd had enough of London. Its streets had turned out to be paved with just enough gold to take out a mortgage on a small house at a substantial remove from work, from where it was at, and from the kind of green fields that somewhat older children would probably want to frolic in one day if they weren't to eventually succumb to a life of

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[kicking_k]

To a certain extent... me too.

When I was little I preferred total darkness to semi-darkness. Half-seen things were scarier. I remember a miserable evening when I was convinced I could see bones gleaming in my bedroom (presumably just the light catching the edges of various things that were totally innocuous in daylight).

I am very good at walking around in the dark without falling over things, though.

[miss_scarlet007]

That sounds terrifying... I'm not entirely sure how I managed to work cybermen up into a credible threat, but I did.

I'm also quite good at walking in the dark, but only indoors. Outdoors I keep thinking I'm going to fall into an unaccounted-for lake or something.

[anonymous]

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[miss_scarlet007]

Thanks Anonymous, that's absolutely beautiful.