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Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 4:25 PM
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This new body is long but useless. The dips and curves and stretch of skin you must learn like a newborn. Your fingers end in nails that will never be sharp enough. When you touch your tongue to your teeth, they are blunt, not suited for the shred and tear of victory. You are solitary, a condition that frightens you. Inside of you, you think there are many bodies still, many necks straining for freedom. The roar and cry of something bestial, the lashing strength of a serpentine melody. The pain bursts inside of your head until you’re forced to cradle it, the light making you wince, sounds causing you to mourn for the lack of dark, watery depths.
Hunger makes you search. This body cannot hunt, and the monetary system confuses you. You steal, and then there’s a man in your way again. The same man as before, solid and full of glory. You have trouble seeing him this time though, keeping your two limited eyes focused between his footwork and the muscles of his arms. Those arms that held the strength to cage you – once. Made you a guardian of a passageway where the cries of the damned troubled your ears. Stole the venom of your spirit to use for his battles.
You wonder what he can steal now and the scars on your long throat burn with remembrance.
Comments
I bow to you! (Also we should add Disney's Hercules onto The List.)
So I had this whole comment set out where I rambled about Hydra and Medusa having tea/coffee and making no sense and then the internet ate it. ;__;
Anyway, I think you're great and I'm really fascinated by what you're doing here. Especially Hercules getting in the way, yet again. (Damn him. And Perseus. What tools.) I also completely forgot that she was supposed to have scars. Medusa is so perfectly clean now that she forgets others weren't quite so...lucky? Lucky isn't really the word I'm going for, but whatever. You know what I mean.
Congratulations on actually getting a day done on time! Nudgepoke.
"Memo to me, maim you after my meeing."
(I typed that without having to look up the quotes. Hercules will definitely be added to The List. I just re-watched it recently. Megara and I should be the same person. We need to find you a Disney gal.)
Damn the Internet eating my comment! It must know how much I love them.
I'm glad you're fascinated. I am too, but also confused because I haven't thought much out. The scars stemmed from the fact that, according to one legend, Hercules had to cauterize the necks so they wouldn't grow back. Hence the marks. Also, Hera was said to raise the Hydra. So, I think the Hydra might end up in a subservient role to Medusa as a result. Like a mytholigcal puppy dog. I think she's used to following orders instead of making her own.
Yeeaaaaah. We'll see how long it lasts! I commend you getting things done within a certain time frame.
starting a comment chain, aw yeah~
Technically it was my fault because I pushed the wrong button, but I'm blaming it on the internet.
Go with the flow, see where it takes you. She's a good one to just take wild stabs in the dark with. Wellll now I want to write some Hera and Hydra. Hera is very bossy.
You can do it! I have faith in your ability to feed me good writing on a daily basis. Nom nom and so on and so forth.