A lapse in time.

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A lapse in time

The Cold draught swished close around my neck, it was although a thousand voices were swarming me ears. As I approached the derelict house the wind grew stronger and as it seemed, so did the voices. I stopped dead outside the front of the house when I lost all hearing of the wind, and everything fell silent it was like a blanket suffocating every part of me, and the strangest thing was that although there was trees there was no birds chirping away. No sound at all it was a deadly silence.

As I moved slightly closer to the entrance, the leaves below which were all dried up and all that was left was the skeleton. I took a quick look up to the house to see walls falling to pieces crumbling before me. It was almost like a cold block of cheese crumbling with every touch. The walls were cracked like large lightning bolts, which struck with ivy creepers and briars surrounding them, although they were strangling them to death. Deep into the walls laid the basic window frames, which had been boarded up with pieces of moss creeping from underneath, seeping through.

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 The door at the front of the house was somehow stuck, ridged in its frame it lead you to think of all sorts of things that could

Be laying behind it, but with a hard thud it became easier to prise open. I looked forwards into the large hall where floorboards were missing, and on the ones that had remained there, lay smashed framed paintings with pieces of what looked like they had come from the broken chandeliers which were still half hung upon the ceiling, covered in cobwebs.

To the left was the old very crooked ...

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