"Look how perfect it is," he said, bidding the soldier to peer at it through the glass he used for working on the smallest, finest gears. "Much better than your painted flowers. So exact and symmetrical -- there would not be a fault in it, if only it did not melt."
"The soldier agreed that it was beautiful, and went home, his workshop feeling empty and cold without someone to share his dinner with.
That is heartbreaking. Like, deeply.
The beginning of this was so charming and happy I guess I kind of forgot that something bad was going to happen. I'm not really familiar with this fairy tale, so it's doubly exciting, and while I can guess there's a happy end, I'm still very worried for Tony, Steve has to save himm DD:
Lots of fantastic lines here, I love this style of story telling and you're doing it reallyreally well. This made me lol: Some lodged in people's brains, upon which the unfortunate victims all became post-modernists and deconstructionalists. is dat sum CS Lewis?
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"The soldier agreed that it was beautiful, and went home, his workshop feeling empty and cold without someone to share his dinner with.
That is heartbreaking. Like, deeply.
The beginning of this was so charming and happy I guess I kind of forgot that something bad was going to happen. I'm not really familiar with this fairy tale, so it's doubly exciting, and while I can guess there's a happy end, I'm still very worried for Tony, Steve has to save himm DD:
Lots of fantastic lines here, I love this style of story telling and you're doing it reallyreally well. This made me lol: Some lodged in people's brains, upon which the unfortunate victims all became post-modernists and deconstructionalists. is dat sum CS Lewis?