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The Window
Date: 7/7/2015, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: Starbride, Rating: 3, Source: LushStories
The Window Again, I walk down this lonely cobblestone street. It is dark, and the rain had stopped a while ago. I am shivering a little. The cobblestones are slippery, so I carefully step aside when I hear a one-horse carriage approaching from behind. I cannot see who is in the carriage. All I can see in the dim light of a street lamp is the back of the coachmen. I stop for a moment, holding my breath. Much to my relief, the carriage leaves the narrow main road after a few more yards and turns to the right. Now I can see it, not far away - a brightly illuminated window on the ground floor of a big house. It is one of those early Georgian houses you still find in Edinburgh, luxuriously appointed, light-grey, surrounded by an iron fence, which is over ten feet high. This is just to protect the house owners from the ordinary rabble. But this is not Edinburgh. I can feel it. The drizzle starts again, and I pull the hood of my long, black cape entirely over my head while I slowly approach the house. My heart is beating strongly as I reach the end of the cobblestone street. To the left and right, the narrow street continues. My shivering hands are clasping the iron fence as I look at the window, so bright - a promise of warmth. Then I see her, and my thoughts suddenly go back to the Highlands, as I watch her brushing her long, dark hair. My mind drifts far away to a lonely Loch, surrounded by glens. I fly a few miles, higher and higher, and look down to the glens, where the ...