#2024MakeAMonster day 5: Fire

 

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Fire

When I took the job as a professional hermit, being keeper of the flame went with it. 
It wasn't supposed to, officially speaking. Carstanton House is one of those eighteenth-century manors built on empire money out of grey stone and NeoClassical notions: pillars and porticoes and little acanthus leaves softened with old English lichen. Beautiful in a way they never intended, I think - the lines of the place were set by people who grew up on Greek and Latin and figured the b...