Coal black shadows slithered across the cool green marble tiles surrounding a massive fireplace. Its heavy carvings of satin-like mahogany glowed dully in the flickering light. Blood red shadows glowed uncannily from the dead eyes of gargoyles and caressed their snarling lips, animating them, and making them appear to move with the shadows in silent conversation.
The upper northern most reaches of ancient Australia baked under a hot sun. The land lay steaming under a layer of thick, humid mist. Long stretches of thick fern groves, under tall gum and flowering tropical trees, made the landscape a primal forest of aggressive plants, each seeking to survive in a hostile world.
He raised his bloodied face from the fresh kill, the antelope forgotten as the voices filled his head. They called to him, a siren’s song, stroking every cell and fiber of his brain. Picking up his spear, he rose onto his knees, listening. He anxiously fingered the black stone hanging around his neck; its angled facets catching the light in a rainbow of colors.
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