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Amabile
Page 102
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells
Written by David Jon Gilmour, Richard William Wright, Nicholas
Berkeley Mason, and George Roger Waters.
The metaphysical train rolled into the station with the kind of half hearted squeal that perfectly matched his mood. Morey stepped down onto the platform, boots scuffed from miles that had not rewarded him, coat carrying the faint dust of cities that had promised wonder and delivered ...,, well, something less than that. Not disaster. Not misery. Just a persistent, nagging almost-but-not-even-close.
He had left home expecting revelation. Instead, he’d collected a series of mildly disappointing postcards in motion; a famous cathedral wrapped in scaffolding; a legendary café now a chain franchise with laminated menus; a mountain sunrise obscured by a fog so thick it felt personal. Even the food had been fine in the way that makes you long for something imperfect but familiar.
So when he stepped into the cool air of his hometown, he didn’t expect anything at all. Which is why the small things hit him with surprising force.