The Long Walls

I Believe · Apr 14, 2026 · 35m

They came for him in the night as men come for the things they fear. The house was small and made of stone and set against a hillside in a country not his own. He knew they would come. He had seen it in a dream. A woman. She had held his head in her arms and painted his face as though preparing him for the earth.He woke to the smell of smoke.The fire climbed the walls and found the timber roof and the room filled with a light that was not daylight. He rose and gathered the bedding and the cloaks and threw them on the flames but the flames took them and grew. Outside he could hear the men…