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+ | ====== The Gatekeeper's Creed - Drabble - By Yangos ====== | ||
+ | There is a small chapel-like building near the Aachen University, built of grey marble and ironwood, with a peaked roof that never seems to catch any snow, even in the coldest of winters. There are gothic, arced windows of dark, lead-lined glass that make it impossible to look inside and a row of small buttresses along each side. There are no symbols of faith or worship, beside a small statue of the Quattro Coronati in a discreet alcove and no student-scribbled graffiti, dirt or climbing ivy mars the smooth walls. | ||
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+ | The door is heavy, made of English oak and on its arched frame, an inscription in small polished bronze letters reads: | ||
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+ | //**NEITHER RAIN, NOR SNOW, NOR GLOOM OF NIGHT, NOR STARLIGHT IRON, NOR THE ENDLESS ROAD CAN STAY THESE GATEKEEPERS FROM OPENING THE PATH**// | ||
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+ | In a small niche, carved in the right-hand doorpost, a few additions to this noble sentiment have been made: | ||
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+ | //__Don't ask us about:__//\\ | ||
+ | //huge big green things with teeth//\\ | ||
+ | //any sort of dragon//\\ | ||
+ | //<del>falling ships</del>//\\ | ||
+ | //the pox//\\ | ||
+ | //earrings//\\ | ||
+ | //thrown rocks//\\ | ||
+ | //the time//\\ | ||
+ | //Chirp// | ||
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+ | And a small brass plaque, bearing the crest of the Gatekeepers and nailed at eye-height on the door itself reads: | ||
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+ | //**PUSH TO OPEN**// |