Nicholas was...
Dec. 24th, 2002 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsolder than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.
The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conductd incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.
Once a year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts but its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time
He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.
Ho.
Ho.
Ho.
Taken from Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman. Merry Christmas y'all ;)
The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conductd incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.
Once a year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts but its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time
He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.
Ho.
Ho.
Ho.
Taken from Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman. Merry Christmas y'all ;)