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Even though the lights are switched off, the moon shines through the window and across the room,

touching the edges of the furniture.

Objects slowly begin to reveal themselves as your eyes adjust to the dim light.

You can see a desk, an antique lamp, and a guilt frame of a painting.

It's too dark to see all the details but it doesn't matter.

The only thing you want to gaze at in this moment is the full moon, silver, and luminous.

It shines brightly, clearly visible through a large curved window shaped like a half-circle.

There's something mysterious and dreamlike about this room.

You're not quite sure where you are or how you got here.

You feel as though you might be somewhere high up, a room at the top of a tower like something in a fairy tale.

All you can see through the window is the moon in the night sky,

surrounded by a scattering of stars. The landscape below is a mystery just like the details of the painting on the wall.

But these details are not important to you right now. Maybe you'll find out later.

For now, you're happy to leave it to your imagination. Perhaps you'll buy the sea or a forest.

You picture the crests of gentle waves. Then the tops of the trees all gleaming with light as if they've been touched by a silver paintbrush.

You stand by the window and gaze at the night sky. The full moon is gorgeous, a perfect circle.

Somehow it feels both impossibly far away and tantalisingly close.

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