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Mistletoe’s Intuition

Hades dwells in false Arcadias. Their effect is a cold delightful decoration. Lifeless, false Arcadias don’t have the power of death.

Arcadia charms death. And death makes Arcadia enchanting, eternally haunting. Death makes Arcadia immortal.

And so, wherever there is a true Arcadia, there is the breath of immortality, sweetened by the flowers of mortal things.

Arcadia is the chiaroscuro of the mortal and the immortal, of happiness and death, of eternity and transience, beauty and the grave.