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05-03-2016, 08:51 PM
 Caneo; Alone — and not. Something fractures in Caneo's memory and the moment the stranger appears he no longer knows how things looked before. It is: alone, not alone; emptiness, black. He forgets, destroys, rewrites the moment his mind first screams danger! even as it occurs, so that instant disappears, and with it the skip of his heart, and with it the warning. He looks on someone else. And his body quiets, not by degrees but instantly, the way rabbits grow still when scenting a wolf, the way deer stop when their eyes catch headlights. In the back of his mind, the snake swallows. He steps over her almost unconsciously, and makes no other movement. The silver ears fix forward; the long tail hangs. Those blue, blue eyes yawn wide and empty from the spare architecture of Caneo's face. When the stranger speaks, there is no indication of how long they stood before the sound. Maybe it was the space of a breath; maybe it was longer. A small frown twists one of the silver ears back, and Caneo's eyes flick to the space behind the black as if he hasn't heard it speak. He's aware - terribly aware - of the transparency of the thought, but he can't figure out where the stranger just came from. It appeared almost as if it stepped out of the air; was born, godlike, while he blinked. He dislikes it. But the frown vanishes as Caneo glances down at the serpent once more. His ears twitch in what resembles almost-mocking confusion. And he looks up at the stranger again, simpers. "You want a frog?" he asks, all innocence and light. The moment she finishes her meal, Caneo swings his head down toward the serpent and she curls up onto his horn, makes herself again a crown. The way the other gazes at her - Caneo's hooked horn might look better in that seeing eye. He still affects a tranquil sort of stupidity as he steps away from the puddle. "They're free." all the children painted diagrams of god upon their hands |
* violence & magic use always permitted *
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