An old commission done as an imaginary illustration for a RL novel. Art by Lysozyme at http://www.furaffinity.net/user/lysozyme

...The shelf was thick with dust in which lay forty-seven of my brother's pipes and a wonderful miscellany of other small objects. Objects many of which I recalled, but some of which still fail to summon any flicker of response from the recesses of my mind...

The small blue egg of songbird, speckled with brown, I suppose the bird must have nested in the vine outside our window, and that David or I had despoiled the nest only to be robbed ourselves by Mr. Million. But I do not recall the incident.

And there is a (broken) puzzle made of bronzed viscera of some small animal, and - wonderfully evocative - one of those large and fancifully decorative keys, sold annually, which during the year of it's currency will admit the possessor to certain rooms of the city library after hours. Mr. Million, I suppose, must have confiscated it when, after expiration, he found it doing duty as a toy; but what Memories!

Excerpt from The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe.