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Behind this door you will find:

a captive prince who is the true heir of Faery
a wall of grave dirt studded with human teeth
the outside
a kelp forest that is home to three giant octopus and a family of selkies
your next life
a flooded river carrying Chinese junks, ducks and sampans
endless beaches of sand so white it burns your eyes
a room full of fresh-baked loaves cooling on racks
a house full of the ghosts of torture victims
something that will change you forever
the bridge of a warship in the harbor at Alexandria
emptiness
a coral reef full of fish as brilliant as broken stained-glass windows
your true love
a temple carved out of red sandstone and filled with statues of onyx and alabaster and drifting sand
chained dragons with porcelain teeth and niobium scales
a broom closet full of newspapers dated 1912, from every city in the world
the salt flats around the nuclear test site at Alamogordo
a huge flock of swallows wheeling in the sky
Mars
the kitchen of the house you lived in as a child
a blues band playing "St. James Infirmary" in a smoky tavern
knowledge of the secrets kept by kobolds under Storm King Mountain
a window looking out on a desert of blue sand and violet sky
children playing in a backyard surrounded by high windowless walls and razorwire-topped fences

Unlock it. Unlock it if you dare.

image courtesy of Magpie Tales
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