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[Tall Man (Act II):]

Through years of lucid trauma

Through tears and sleepless nights have I screamed

Bid terrors, leave this savant!

Get out mine ears, away my sight!

With every waking hour

She calls to me with wanton grace

How can I stay this horror

And the truth of my affliction mirrored in her face?

[Narrator:]

In darkest witching hour

His twisted form closed distance

As he crept towards her dorm

They watched, disfigured, shadows flickered

Darkness clothed the moon

Choked silent and left breathless of splendour

As he descended at her bedside..

Awakened by a whisper rose above the storm without

Two fisted, she resisted as he clasped one hand across her tiny mouth

As fell the pall in silence

So too the fragile veil

In the courtyard outside

A murder of ravens, relieving themselves of sight

Chose their remaining days in darkness

As if the shame would never leave them