It sounds like a fable or fantasy. A gull and a starling visits. A gull and a starling visits the pub... or a restaurant... Or gull and a starling tells a joke to the philosopher. But this was not the

I found her walking up a flight of stairs that seemed to lead straight up to heaven yet I only saw in front of me a valley of desolation She was walking up a flight of stairs. I thought she might ascend