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FRIEDHOF DER NAMENLOSEN
(Cemetery of the Nameless)
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Placed at Alberner Hafen.
In From the Teeth of Angels Wyatt Leonard recognizes that
he is able to "read" the names and stories of people
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"There. Go up those stairs."
He didn't move. "How do you know Wyatt?" (...)
Instead of asking how I knew these facts. He started up the
narrow staircase. At the top was a strange building that looked
like a stone beehive. (From the Teeth of Angels)
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(...) you could see behind an ornate locked gate
a small but gaudy altar loaded with fresh flowers and on lit
candle. Whose job was to come out here first thing every morning
to check on the candle and light it? (From the Teeth of Angels) |
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Down another short set of steps to a waist-high cement wall
with FRIEDHOF DER NAMENLOSEN in thick block letters. On the other
side of the wall were perhaps a hundred graves. (From the
Teeth of Angels)
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Almost all had identical black metal crosses
at the head of the humps of earth. At the bottom of each cross
was a square that looked like a small chalkboard for something
to be written, but only a handful had names and dates recorded
in white script. (...) (From the Teeth of Angels) |
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