DEIMOS
The gloves slid into his grasp like links to an old friend, the water content to be hastened by his influence, then let go, back into the eaves of its currents and fathoms. The quiet from Sunjata just seemed to prolong his own, until there were only muddled portions of what he knew about Mort’s Realm and the people contained within – and much less about upcoming engagements with Ru.
The Ascended, out of the Voice’s hands and into Mort’s, had been a relief. I figured, when I saw Rexanna appear for Kiada. Sentiments that even for all the wrongdoing wrought by the New Gods, the others had been spared; and it’d been one less concern amongst the myriad of hundreds. Bizarre – really – to think of someone like Wessex in such a world, after everything.
Thereafter, he watched a sharp turn from a school of gilded and black fish; watching as they zipped through another interval and then slowed down considerably. He too altered the subject, though pointedly didn’t glance at Sunjata – following the movement of the animals instead. Calculations – poignant and blunt as ever. Did anything ever happen with Dahlia and the Refuge?
The Ascended, out of the Voice’s hands and into Mort’s, had been a relief. I figured, when I saw Rexanna appear for Kiada. Sentiments that even for all the wrongdoing wrought by the New Gods, the others had been spared; and it’d been one less concern amongst the myriad of hundreds. Bizarre – really – to think of someone like Wessex in such a world, after everything.
Thereafter, he watched a sharp turn from a school of gilded and black fish; watching as they zipped through another interval and then slowed down considerably. He too altered the subject, though pointedly didn’t glance at Sunjata – following the movement of the animals instead. Calculations – poignant and blunt as ever. Did anything ever happen with Dahlia and the Refuge?
who we were before bones, before dirt, before even light
we have always been deep, restless souls
we have always been deep, restless souls
