Oh this is brilliant Marc, I love it. (And that picture you've found is Gorgeous!).

In the first section, there was something about it which reminded me somewhat of 'This Is How You Lose The Time War'. Then it changes, into something more - gothic? Poe-ish? I don't know, but there's a bell ringing in my head somewhere, it reminds me of something .....

Wonderfully dark and foreboding anyway! (I'm actually wondering about the wisdom of reading it at this time of night, lol. The back of my head is tingling...