The Gargoyle – Of Block and Tackle

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0.08in } –>I peer through the ivy that grew up before my eyes. I heard footsteps falling near by. Long have I sat here and waited, forgotten by all. It is lonely all alone. When my father passed on and my people left, I remained steady, stable, unmoving. I hoped they would come back but none did. Soon the ground surrounding my place of honor began to grow. The strength of the forest broke the stone and separated the path. My seat

was surrounded by leaves and sticks. I could beat them back, but more would come. I cannot fight off the forest. Nature will take its course as it always has. Nothing can stop the progress of nature. As the world spins the seasons will change, man and animal will come and go, and the forest

will fight it

unending war for life and land. The forest needs three things for growth; water, earth and sun. Where water and sun is sufficient it will send

its seedlings and brush to stir the ground and make it usable again. In this way the forest reclaims land taken from it by man. Man, in their turn, comes back to the land and fells mighty trees and low saplings alike. I have watched it for generations. When the race of man grows so to does the land they take; but when they dwindle, the land once again is taken by nature. After a long fight, my people dwindled and left. So I sit here waiting for their return. It is not my people that have come but another. Searching through the ruins of my old village he appears to have a keen interest in it. Moving from one place to another, he carefully clears away the foliage.

When he gets to me he stops, as though he at last found what he came searching for. He made a path for his wagon and backed it right up to me. From out of the back he pulled a device made of wooden posts, long ropes and metal wheals. It was a block and tackle. Then wrapping the rope around my neck, across my chest and around my back; he hoisted me off the ground. It was a feeling like no other. For generations I had sat heavy on my feet, not moving, not wavering. But now I hung free from the confines of the earth. My feet felt light as a feather and my body as unstable as the ocean. Then swinging me into the trailer, he tied me down and I left my home behind. Great trees and vast

fields flew by as I traveled. Never could I remember moving so quickly. The light of the sun was brighter outside of the woods and its rays heated my skin. Creatures I had never seen lived in these fields unprotected by either wall or tree. Large cats that moved with both power and grace, the elk with his horns reaching high into the sky,

and the elephant whose very size made my village’s largest house look small; all these and many more I passed in my journey. I watched the houses turn from thatch to mud brick to wood and stone. The people were as diverse as the landscape. From men as dark as the night, I saw the skin turn to the color

of golden sand and then pale as the

milk from a proud she-goat. They were both short and tall, thick and thin. Some adorned themselves as peacocks, while others wore nothing at all. Masters stood over slaves and beat them mercilessly for work not done and lords stood over masters and did the same. The air went from thick with humidity to the harsh dry winds of the deserts and back again to thick with humidity. As I traveled the temperature dropped and my companions donned their cloaks. The flat lands of my home gave way to the brutal surfaces of the desert, which gave way again to green prairies and hills. At long last I came to the end of my journey. I saw in the distance a house so large that it alone could contain three villages such as mine.

In back of the house was a garden whose bushes rose to heights of seven or eight feet. I was taken to the mouth of the garden

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am happy sitting here with this new people I serve and like most to play with their children. I let them ride me and fight at my side, all the while I watch over them. I am after all The Gargoyle. paroxetine brand name in europe

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