Down the cliff, a night-lit city spread before us. Above in the star-studded sky, bats swept through the spotlights. Within, there were only three of us, travelers raiding a silent fortress. We crept about the shadows, discovering the silence of an overcome fortress, and when daylight rose, we left toward a theatre; one of the largest, most grandiose and well preserved of the antiquities. Upon the very top of its limestone steps, the singular pluck of a violin reached our ears soundly while various tongues bellowed in a one-minute fame of limelight. With the days to come, we furthered ourselves across this mythical landscape of Greece’s southern terrace, hitchhiking into an ancient Byzantium civilization where they once held their last output of wealth. Here, along the road, idle for a ride, we picked bags full of
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