The Alleys Of Eld

Night and the Sea and the depths of Despair! The gulfs of Time, the moaning of wastrel souls, the ullulation of fiends in the brackish currents of Change: I heard with an myriad Ear, and was withered and worn and wrenched in the screws. How came I into the Alleys of Eld? Endless doors were closing behind me--I could not go back, the slams were decisive, I heard ITS skeleton-key turn in each lock, and peering back, I looked into its eyes, sinister as Time’s face, brooding upon me-- As I hurried down the Alleys of Eld. A sudden emergence here on this shore, my brain still gimletted with the memory of those eyes, my ears still pricked with the click! click! of ITS skeleton-key-- Emerged! ah! the Night and the Sea and the depths of Despair and the memory of IT!-- Emerged from the Alleys of Eld!