Liminal Monster

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>IN THE CENTER OF THE FOREST SITS A HOUSE OF LEAVES AND ASH. INSIDE THE HOUSE HIS HEART AND LIES.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Inside the house called Sempiternity there is a lake at the center of which an island sits. Upon the island a spire of stone. Surrounding the spire an orchard of dreams.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beneath an apple tree sits faceless Self who writes of sorry things. What an awful place. What a cruelty it is being birthed of pain.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a dog</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> that should not be wanders into Sempiternity through </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a door</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> that should not be Self learns a terrible truth: Sempiternity is no longer safe no longer </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>theirs</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Fictional failures come in search of proper ends in search of slaughter quelled by Self's prosaic hand.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In search of </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>lies</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thus Self departs Sempiternity for the forest dark for at its center is the ruined town of Own.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The place where the nightmare began.</strong></p><p></p>