Chapter 15: The Stairwell

Chapter 15: The Stairwell

(Wednesday, June 3rd, 2011)

Spiralling upwards, through an infinite number of portals, spanning the width and depth of the house. The supports are built in the shapes of limbs of animals, gilded in gold leaf, leading up an iron rod, twisted upwards, leading from the front door to the attic and beyond.

The stairwell was created for those guests of the house who enjoy a more linear way of life, built when the President of Zimbabwe complained of the lack of stairs and opened on the first day of Spring. Doorways are seperated by four stone steps, equally seeded along the ley lines each step represents.

And at the very top, beyond infinity, where the stairway ends, a golden gate, surrounded by dry ice tended to by the very highest of the goblins, stands closed. A sign abreast its lock reads:

“If you have made it here, then you only deserve to fall, for a life wasted is not a life lived in Good.”