Gustav Klimt Schloss Kammer Am Attersee II

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And at that moment the cobblestones came up to meet him.
This is usually a poetic way of saying that someone fell flat on their face. In this case, the cobblestones really came up to meet him. They fountained up, circled silently in the air above the alley for a moment, and then dropped like stones.
Windle stared at them. So did Lupine.
‘That’s again. It showed no inclination to move.
‘I’d better be getting along,’ said Lupine.
‘What’s it like, being a wereman?’ said Windle.
Lupine shrugged. ‘Lonely,’ he said.
‘Hmm?’
‘You don’t fit in, you see. When I’m a wolf I remember what it’s like to be a man, and vice versa. Like . . . I mean . . . sometimes . . . sometimes, right, when I’m wolf-shaped, I run up into the hills . . . in the wintersomething you don’t often see,’ said the wereman, after a while.’I don’t think I’ve ever seen stones flying before.’ ‘Or dropping like stones,’ said Windle. He nudged one with the toe of his boot. It seemed perfectly happy with the role gravity had chosen for it.‘You’re a wizard -‘‘Were a wizard,’ said Windle.‘You were a wizard. What caused all that?’‘I think it is probably an inexplicable phenomenon,’ said Windle. ‘There’s a lot of them about, for some reason. I wish I knew why.’ He prodded a stone