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[thefairytalequill]

Stannis Castles

Have you heard of the Stannis Castles

Home to 3000 different vassals

With a kindly duke who loved them well

Till called to war, he bid them farewell

Toiled they did for many a year

Everyone hoping that he’d still appear

Day turned to night as time did permit

News they heard not, though they’d never admit

Loyalty planted, never could wane

Doubts now marked with wretched pain

Love turned obsession

Becomes castles possession

Halls they did clean, and stables they tended

Becoming their rest no one near mended

So within castles walls their bones now dust

There they remain to keep their lords trust

Toil they will till true end they will meet.

Or duke comes home and they are complete.

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[thefairytalequill]

Do you know the tale of Sarah McGee?

She is quite tall and cute as can be

A button nose,

A simple curl

No one could forget this gentle girl.

Till one night she travelled late

Lost her way, found Ester’s gate.

Trapped in time - so all would forget

The simple girl, who now owed a debt.

Time rages on, as she begs her decree

Do not forget, Sarah McGee!

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[thefairytalequill]

Do you know the tale of Roanoke?

A village which swallowed ten thousand folk

On the surface nothing’s clear

But a tree, that all should fear

The secret that the roots do keep

Hiding ancient stairs to earth so deep

Where a hungry tomb began to feed

No single force could quell its greed

With haunting tune it beckoned along

No one dare able to resist its song

Once they entered none would leave

Beds of stone to which they’d cleave

Their final breath, was bittersweet

And in their deaths they all did meet

Now you know this tale of woe

And the ghosts who lie singing below

So listen well as it is no joke

The dreadful tale of roanoake

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[thefairytalequill]

Bandersnatch

Listen Timmy, Listen Mary

While I tell you of something scary.

It runs, it jumps it plays all day

But at night, it lurks to hunt its prey.

Fur black as night, and eyes as well

Teeth white and sharp like that of shell

It moves as quiet as a ghost

That’s what you must learn to fear the most

Patiently it waits, for its prey to catch

Its name you ask, the Bandersnatch.

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