I see a small room, a dark room, a hidden room. It is hot and stuffy, and there is a sense of terrible menace in the warm silent darkness. There is only one arrow slit of a window in the thick stone walls. The only light comes from the window; the only brightness in the darkness of the room is that single thread of light. I look towards it, drawn by the only sign of life in the black. Then it is blocked as if by a man standing before it, and there is nothing but darkness. I hear the alchemist sigh behind me, as if I have whispered my vision to him and he has seen it all. “God bless,” he says
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