The Stonemason's Cottage

Measurements: approximately ~6" × 5" × 5"

Every wall was a sentence, written in stone.

Stacked by hand, carried from fields where frost split rock and summer sun bleached it pale. Each piece chosen not for perfection, but for how well it leaned into the next. No mortar could hold stronger than his eye for balance.

It was not large — four walls, a roof pitched against the weather — but it stood with the certainty of a monument. A hearth that swallowed wood and gave back warmth, windows deep-set as if carved into memory.

Here, apprentices once learned patience: how to listen for the click of stone against stone, how to read the language of granite and limestone. The cottage itself became the lesson — permanence taught by presence.

It endures not because it was grand, but because it was honest. A home assembled from endurance and gravity. A testament to the hand that shaped it, and the earth that gave it up.