“We came next to a side door that led us back to the courtyard, where the ice now ran red with blood, then he made us all leap through a window that brought us to a winter garden, filled with flowers the color of twilight punctuated with violent hedges, their leaves black and spiky and their berries bright with poison.” EscapingPalaceWinter GardenCourtyardMagical BeautyDark BeautyPerilous Beauty Book:Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“Raistlin opened his eyes, looking at her without recognition. And in them, she saw deep, undying sorrow--the look of one who has been permitted to enter a realm of deadly, perilous beauty, and who now finds himself, once more, cast down into the grey, rain-swept world.” SorrowPerilous Beauty Book:War of the Twins Source: War of the Twins