a leather mask (#1025)

(an instance of Generic Scripted Object made by Zenith)

     Coulibri Estate, Jamaica 1840's. The sun PLAYs in a dance WITH shadows over the MASK
      "...the golden ferns and the silver ferns, the orchids,
      the ginger lilies and the roses, the rocking-chairs
      and the blue sofa, the jasmine and the honeysuckle..."

Go to location of this object, a Forest.

After a moment, something begins to happen...
     Our garden was as large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible -
      the
      tree of life
      grew
      there.
      But it had gone wild.
     The paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed
      with the fresh living smell.
     Underneath the tree ferns,
      t
      a as forest
      l tree ferns,
      l
      the light was green.
      Orchids flourished out of
      reach or for some
      reason not to be touched.
      One was snaky looking,
      another like an octopus
      with long thin brown tentacles bare of leaves
      hanging
      from a twisted root.
      Twice a year the octopus orchid flowered -
      then not an inch of tentacle showed.
      It was
      a bell-shaped mass
      of white, mauve, deep purples,
      wonderful to see.
     
      The scent was very sweet and strong.
     
      I never went near it.