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Sawol-Anste Park
Were you to walk down Crimson Valley street, it wouldn't take you long to reach Sawol-Anste Park. This park looks a bit... different from the outside. It's a public park, but has a metal fence around it, the black kind, that you would expect to see around a graveyard, except about person-height. A little arc marks an opening in the fence in the middle of each side- where the fence stops. There are no doors to close off the park, just arches to make openings in the fence. At this point, you would be most likely to decide to take a look into this queer little park, and step in through the arched gait. You would find yourself walking through the park, on a little path, and since you entered here to look around, now would be the great time to see what this park is made off. The sight isn't annything unordinary, at first sight. Instead, the park seems charming in it's simplicity. Neatly trimmed lawns are criss-crossed by an aray of little paved paths, and here and there giant oaks or weeping willows loom. The trees bow over, sometime shadowing the paths, sometime creating spectral shadows. Their gnarled trucks form interesting shapes, artistic and beautiful, and yet, unsettling too. Other then that, the park is just flat grass, setting out the black stone paths, which, you may now notice, are perfectly simmetrical at al angles of the perfectly square park, forming a sort of odd mandala. It's spectacular, in a certain light, that someone would take such time to make a design simmetrical from all four angles in the middle of such a park, but you'd get over it. It's realy the simple harmony of old trees and old gaits and stones, along with the freshness of the new grass, that make it a place well loved by nearly everyone in the summer, and the people who like creepier things in the cold shadows of winter.
Indeed, under a different sky, this park has an aura of mystery like no other, with it's odd, never-explained symbol. And were you too walk in it in the cold grey light of Halloween, under the shadow of the N
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