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Cover her face
Mine eyes dazzle
She died young


Shadows fall gently around you. Night embraces you, smooth as satin, soft as 
velvet. The moon casts an eerie yellow glow, and you know that something is 
going to happen. Your breath comes in shallow, expectant gasps, and then you 
hear it... It comes very softly, at first, but then it grows louder. Slowly, 
you realize what it is: the clicking of heels upon the cobblestones, coming 
steadily towards you. What you see halts your hastening footsteps. You stop 
perfectly still, as if in a trance. A child approaches you, a perfect, 
beautiful child. Her hair shines like some supernatural light in the darkness. 
She moves like a woman, and when her eyes meet yours, you see knowledge beyond 
your comprehension. In her golden curls, she has a single blood red rose, which 
she now removes. She holds it out to you, and you slowly, and hesitantly, 
approach her, to accept it. You take the rose from her, and bend down on one 
knee, to meet her eyes at her level. You gaze at her doll-like face, and feel 
compelled to embrace her. You draw her to yourself, not knowing that you hold 
death in your arms. She rests her head upon your shoulder, and then you feel 
it, different from any other sensation that you've ever felt before. Pleasure 
washes over you, and only then, as you feel your life draining away, do you 
realize your fatal mistake. Only then do you realize that you've fallen into 
the arms of...

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