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“Huh,” she said. “Now that’s
weird.”
He glanced the way she was looking
and saw a ruined arch standing across the path with more stairs behind it. The
arch he could see, why it was weird, he missed.
“Weird? Why?” He had learnt that
it was just better to ask her.
“An arch… like a doorway… with no
wall.”
“No wall,” he repeated stupidly.
“Next to the archway.”
“Oh.” He paused. “I think I
understand.”
She snorted. “Who builds what is
basically a door in the middle of a path?”
“With no walls.”
“Right.”
“Dunno.”
She rolled her eyes.
Tilting his head, he studied it;
still trying to work out why it unnerved her. He knew that it did because she
hadn’t just walked through it. And she had stopped him doing it, too.
“There’s a second bit.” He pointed
to the right hand side where the remnant of the next curve remained.”
“Maybe it was part of a wall.”
“Or a colonnade.” he suggested.
“Is that what they call it when there are a few arches in a row?”
“Something like that,” she
answered but she was distracted. Clambering up the side, but without passing
through the door, he noticed, she started scrabbling in the undergrowth. “If
there is... there should be another base.”
He leaned against a tree and let
her dig about. He had learned from past practice that she didn’t appreciate his
help. He found an apple in his bag and started munching it, studying the path
as he did.
She was using a stick to gouge out
the earth. “Nope,” she puffed. “Only two bases.” She sat back on her haunches.
“Now that is weirder.”
“Double doorway but one path.” He
nibbled some more.
He had finished his apple down to
the core so he tossed it away. It went through the archway and vanished.
“I win,” he said.
~~~~~
© AM Gray 2014
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