They stared up at their portion of stone wall.
In the hesitant light of the quarter moon, they could see some of the stones were as wide as their outstretched arms.
There were bright flowers of deep pink which bloomed everywhere. Some were as large as their heads, others were tiny enough to perch on their fists. Some seemed to be scented and others unscented – without rhyme or reason.
Then, they saw the love hearts on the wall. And it made their own hearts sink. The wall hearts were all bruised and broken in some way, all in different shades of blue reaching into lilac and back. The love hearts appeared, swung, danced and perched fearfully before disappearing and reappearing.
They stared up at the wall, at the dark night sky beyond and, knowing they had little choice, they started to climb.
Backstory: This is again a piece expanded from a long-ago piece of Twitter microfiction. I struggled to draw a decent illustration to go with this. In the end, what you see is the best I could do, and I drew this on the Autodesk Sketchbook app on my phone.
I tried to generate some images with different AI tools and managed to get a couple of pretty awesome results which actually came very close to capturing the images in my head. They were definitely much better than anything I could scrawl. But the lack of copyright clarity about the AI-generated images made me opt to not use them.
Ree-Imagined Worlds 
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