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The inevitable end.

Halcyon Hall had rotted away for decades on its grassy perch, demolished by neglect long before any equipment arrived on the property. It was always known that one day the old place would have to be felled, but that did little to dull the ache of actually witnessing it happen firsthand. Timbers snap, walls fall, glass shatters, and stones crumble. In the end, a bare patch of land exists where a stunning hall had for well over a century. A void in every sense of the word.

Demolition work took some months to complete, with the removal of auxiliary buildings and annex structures before the hall proper was brought down. This left the property in a unique state for a few weeks where the original hall was the singular building on the grounds, alone on its knoll much as it was when first opened in 1893. On the last day, when the main peak of Halcyon was tumbled, the weather played out as dramatically as the scenes before us. The bright sun faded away to black thunderstorms, and back again. A repeating cycle of sunshine and oppressive downpours punctuated by rainbows and thunderclaps. In the final hour leading up to the removal of the last and largest peak, the rain had been so constant and the clouds so heavy that we assumed the sun had finally given up for the day. Through the falling rain, we watched as a giant excavator claw tore away the building bit by bit, working now on the sidewalls and roofing when suddenly the upper two floors of the structure listed, pivoting about 10 degrees before settling to a stop atop twisting walls. The excavator backed away and work halted for about an hour, this pause was likely so that the crew could gather together a plan on how to deal with the imminent collapse of the remaining edifice. That hour saw the black thunderclouds slowly pass, and like the lifting of a curtain, the sun returned in theatrical fashion.

Light beamed down upon the school, passing through it from the missing walls in the rear, and exiting out the front facade through the remaining windows. It looked as if the lights of the building were illuminated for the first time in decades, a glimmer of life where none had been for ages. Halcyon had roused from a long sleep to look out at the world one final time. It lasted just a minute, no more, but in that brief instant, it felt that the old place had made peace with all the generations that knew it.

The clouds returned with their darkness and rain. The demolition claw also returned, slowly making its way through the mud toward the crooked peak like an executioner dragging his ax. And then it was over.

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