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While the secret garden was coming alive and two children were coming alive with it, there was a man wandering about certain far-away beautiful places in the Norwegian fiords and the valleys and mountains of Switzerland and he was a man who for ten years had kept his mind filled with dark and heart-broken thinking. He had not been courageous; he had never tried to put any other thoughts in the place of the dark ones. He had wandered by blue lakes and thought them; he had lain on mountain-sides with sheets of deep blue gentians blooming all about him and flower breaths filling all the air and he had thought them. A terrible sorrow had fallen upon him when he had been happy and he had let his soul fill itself with blackness and had refused obstinately to allow any rift of light to pierce through. He had forgotten and deserted his home and his duties. When he traveled about, darkness so brooded over him that the sight of him was a wrong done to other people because it was as if he poisoned the air about him with gloom. Most strangers thought he must be either half mad or a man with some hidden crime on his soul. He was a tall man with a drawn face and crooked shoulders and the name he always entered on hotel registers was, "Archibald Craven, Misselthwaite Manor, Yorkshire, England."

~Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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If you're here for the Slayerverse Archibald Craven in mixed_muses, here is the full explanation. Short form: Archibald was trained as a Watcher, and he fell in love with and married his Slayer. Then she died. Things continued going wrong from there.

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This is a roleplaying journal for milliways_bar and mixed_muses. The character of Archibald Craven was created by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1911; he is presently in the public domain. The player, rymenhild, may be reached at rymenhild at yahoo dot com.