write a dark story but have the last sentence make it beautiful
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Once upon a time, in the desolate wasteland that was once a lush and vibrant forest, there lived a solitary creature. The creature, a pitiful and grotesque being, was covered in thick, mossy scales that hid its form from the unforgiving sun. Its eyes, the only part of its body unprotected by that which grew upon it, were hollowed out, void of emotion, save for a single, piercing
and full of hope

Once upon a midnight dreary, in a hidden forest shrouded in a thick and impenetrable fog, there stood a decrepit castle, its crumbling walls slick with moss and mold. The creaking boughs of ancient trees reached out, grasping at the castle, as if trying to pull it back into the ground from which it rose, like a sickly child.

The castle was the dwelling place of the