Under þǣre ungewissre ecge nihtes is sēo woruld full þinga þe sind ānlīce healf ongietene. Se mōna self gǣþ smalne sēam betwēonan forloren and funden, and glit on þǣm ūpāstigenan flōde, and tēah forþ twēgen weardas, ānne tamne, ānne wildne. Betwēonan þǣm ealdum stānstīpelum bewrihþ dēaw þæt gærs, and þynne mist ligeþ niþer on eorþan, and dēþ þone pæþ ǣgþer nēah and unāhrīnedne. Sēo nihtlyft is cōl and stincþ blāclīce sealtes and eorþan, and feor bufan is þæs mōnan andwlite wrigels, nǣfre fullīce ætīewende, nǣfre fullīce hīdende.
Þæs hundes orþung wolcnaþ on þǣm ciele, and þæs wulfes fēt strīcaþ þone spearlendan sand be ēarīman. Bēgen faraþ stille, ungewisse hwæþer hīe bēon gescildend oþþe costneras þǣm wegfarendan þe fylgþ þissum healfbeorhtan wege. Þæt swēg wæteres þe hwearfaþ wiþ þone strand is līþe ac geornful, slǣplēoþ oþþe warnung. Scillan, ǣr gehȳdde on dæg, scīnaþ nū hnesce nēah þæs wæteres rīme. Þā stīplas, ealde and swīge, standaþ tō gewitnesse uncwedenra dīegla, heora stānas unāhrinede mid wearmnesse, heora ēagþyrlu behealdende ac nǣfre gesēonde.
On spellum hātte þēos tīd þāra gāsta tīd, þonne sēo mearc þynnaþ and sēo woruld hlyst æfter andswarum þe hēo nolde gehīeran. Þā nēah hūs healdaþ heora sibbe: līnclāþ gelegd ofer swīgum bēodum, wahrift ātogen wiþ þā openan niht, croccen fæt gesett gearu tō morgenes meolce. Ælc fōþ þæs mōnan mist and giefþ hine eft swā swīgan ymbe eald wudu and stān. On feorrum stōwum hangaþ mist ofer mōrum and mersce, and wendeþ hegas and niþre wāgas tō sceadum. Sǣmenn behealdan hine wealcan ofer þone hæfen, and emnian þone sǣ, and dēafian þā lēohtfatu be þǣre hyþe, slāw and swīge boda ǣr dægrēde.
On mēteres hūse tācnaþ unnotod sīdscēaf cyrtel nǣfre geborenne, oþþe gyftwrigels nǣfre āhafen. Forlæten strǣt, geswopen mid midnihtes wǣte, ætīewþ fōtlāstas þe tōmeltan ǣr ǣnig āwacþ. On sumum landum is þēos sēo tīd þonne þæt gāstorcerd blōwaþ. Þā bōgas, hefige mid dēawe, healdaþ blēda þe þyncaþ nēah unriht, heora stenc gefangen betwēonan gemynde and swefne. Se āna wegfarend gǣþ forþ, fylgende þāra snæglscilla glitmunge be wege oþþe þǣm lēoman of feorres heges poste þe forst his ecge hrān.
Þis sind þā tīda and þā þing þæs mōnan rīces, þǣr þæt cūþe is lȳtel fremde, and þæt fremde nēah cūþ. On swilcre nihte mæg mann sēcan ealde hīredes ǣrendgewritu gehealden on cedercyste and hīe ālecgan tō rǣdenne be ēagþyrllēohte, oþþe nettclāþ āhōn æt ēagþyrle tō hnescienne þā woruld ūte. Hit mæg bēon tīd tō þweānne þæs dæges cuppan and hīe underbæc forlǣtan tō drȳgenne on þǣm swīgan, oþþe gān ūt tō gesēonne þone forman morgenmist drīfan ofer þæt gærs, bīdende þæt lēoht þone weg forþ ætīewe.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Gāsthwīt.
Lucky Color: GhostWhite — #F8F8FFLæt þone wrigels ābīdan āne hwīle leng, and fylg þǣm pæþe þǣr hē glit, healf ætīewed.