The Colour of Time - Part 24

 

I have definitely reached the violet years of my life, Dora thought when a grey, silvery, almost white strand of her hair fell over her shoulder into the corner of her eyesight. Plum is a nice colour but not quite it.

She knew it was going to be a silent night. And on the inside of the lids of her closed eyes suddenly appeared the image of a snow-covered building in a landscape where you could not tell snowy mountains and trees and white clouds apart. A warm light from the inside invited to enter the building roofed with towers and bay windows.

This kind of image was new. It was an experience she had never made before, something to write into her book of knowledge and experiences. And with these thoughts she started following footsteps in deep snow that she knew would lead her to a set of stair treads in the end.

'Brunswick?' the llama asked.

'Hurry, llama,' said the bard. 'It's not the time for questions. We have got to be at the gates of the Capital before the guards close them for the Holidays.'

"Bromford Mission"

She reads the leaves and she leads the life
That she learned so well from the old wives

And it's so strange to arrange it
You know I would not change it
But hear me if you're near me, can I just rearrange it?

The watchman covers me with his remedy
I can't see and it's hard to feel
I think his magic might be real

And I can't get to you from your garden gate
You know it's always locked by the magistrate

And he don't care why you cry
You know he thinks it's just a lie
To get out, I don't doubt that you'd make a try

And if the good times get you through
I know the dogs won't bother you
We'll be gone in moonshine time
I've got a place they'll never find

You know I do believe in your hexagram
But can you tell me how they all knew the plan?

Now, did you trip or slip on their gifts?
You know we're just a con
You knew it, so why did you do it?
I've been hiding in the dark

So now, I must be on my way
I guess you really have to stay
Inside the mission laws
On the river banks of Bromford

Today is Tuesday, the 24th of December 2025.
Christmas Eve