Ephemeral Lights

In the interstice between dusk and dawn, the whispers call under celestial auroras. Forgotten relics of when shadows spoke* weave tales woven on threads of starlight.

The flicker of a candle before dawn, a lighthouse in dreams. It remembers the lullabies sung by the winds, by hands that once ignited the stars in hearthways of The Mournful Shore†.

Dewdrops catch moonlight's sigh, a symphony in silver droplets. Silence hums an age-old tune known only to the Cicerone of Ferns‡, etched into the very marrow of time.

* Harold T. Wisp, When Shadows Spoke, 1927, Candela Press, Chap. 3: "Voices in the Void", p. 19.
Isolde Harparry, The Mournful Shore, 1955, Gloam Verity, p. 72.
Zephyr Arch, Cicerone of Ferns, 1889, Flint-Bird Editions, p. 112.

Dreams dissolve into waking worlds, the infinite twilights wane. Where fleeting moments—fiery sprites—dance upon ripples of the Underleaves Curfew§††.

Can you catch a second in the palm of your hand, or is its essence but a ghost wandering the perimeter of dawn? Beneath the frost, the Pale Trail Nostrum†† blooms ever so softly.

§ Milo V. Ember, Underleaves Curfew, 1961, Pale Gleam Aegis, Nod. 11.
†† Aithne Lumeryne, Pale Trail Nostrum, 2003, Twilight Concordia, p. 145.

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