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The Ironside
Behind the wall is a world of green
 Green, white, black, silver, and red
 Trolls and pixies and humans alike
 Glamoured beauty and glamoured hatred
 Blending against the natural Earth
 With few traces of Iron
 But, where riddles lay thick and daunting
 Coming from cunning brains
 Leaving through filed teeth
 Long, sharp, pointy, deadly,
 And the pleasure in the eyes
 Coal black turning darker with excitement
 When the called upon suspect is stuck
 At a simple question, thick with twists and turns
 That would put the Cheshire Cat to shame.
 
 Devilish tricks of wielding swords
 Magic versus magic, 
 In a duel for freedom that
 The Seelie Queen passed by lazily
 For she was bored with this small matter
 But when the opponents start
 They fight and fight
 And cheat some, too,
 Turning limbs into smoke,
 In order to avoid a collision
 Of broken sword against trolls’ sword
 
 Here in this world there is no tale of the old lady who lived in the shoe
 But a world of fiendish creatures who steal people
 And switch them with a faerie look alike.
 They exile the immortal to the Ironside, leaving them there to die.
 They are often thought of as cute and nice
 When they really are trying to make them into on of theirs
 But if you’re caught with a rare gift, the gift of Sight
 Then they brutally take it away from you.
 When you’re a human living in the Ironside, be careful who you meet,
 Because they could be all of what you’ve heard 
 And lead you into the Faerie World
 Residing outside of the Ironside.
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