Castles in the sand

And they shrieked with joy when they saw it. At first glimpse they knew what it could be. They knew the secrets this long forgotten playground held.

What had once been a thing of thrill and raucous laughter; was here a broken ruin. Yet the two boys looked at the playground and new it would live again.

This was to be their kingdom. It would be of knights and of dragons, of witches and of goblins; of battles for good and evil. The old wooden structures would be to the two boys as towering castles. The slides were their defenses. The sand would be their moat, their land, their empire.

To the two boys these battered boards were more than just wood, it was the stone of a rampart underfoot; and on it they stood to gaze out upon imagination.