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crushing weight on every doorstep

thousands of lights make perfect cityscape halo

violently crashing into ethereal planes

makeshift wooden swords and tree-forts lay nestled into the woods beyond town

secrecy blankets every surface like pesticides

keeping all sorts of pests at bay

Stupor--is the lack of critical cognitive function and level of consciousness wherein a sufferer is almost entirely unresponsive and only responds to base stimuli such as pain. The word derives from the Latin stupure, meaning insensible. Being characterised by impairments of reactions to external stimuli, it usually appears in infectious diseases, complicated toxic states, severe hypothermia, mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, severe clinical depression), vascular illnesses (e.g. hypertensive encephalopathy), neoplasms (e.g. brain tumors), vitamin D deficiency and so on.