“And they walk, unaffected by the cinders falling upon their skin, the ashen sky almost unnoticed. Companions in everything, they moved, hand in hand along the edge of the rift, praying to those above and below that not one of them should slip, for with such an accident not one part of the chain would fall, but the whole. Arlan-i.. Arlanica….”
“Arlanicætras.”
“Felt his foot slipping on the loosened stone…”
Claude Faustus holding Alois Trancy as Alois reads from a book before bed.
It makes me unhappy when people say that he could not read because I think that Claude taught him how once the boy was finally removed from the former head Trancy's hands.
Anyway, I would have posted this sooner but this night ended up much more unhappy than I ever thought it would. I know I should sleep but it just seems impossible.
Alois and Claude belong to Yana Toboso. Done in Photoshop CS4.