Sacrifice
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:27 am
No resistance.
Lungs call out for air. What air?
The sacrifice had ended.
Delivered to the waters... to wash away the curse. To wash away the shield that had consisted of anger and of blood.
Heart began to pound against chest again.
But without fear...
Flowing deeper. And deeper. Waves crashed overhead, colors of turquoise light green blue scintillating through the dark nothing of closing eyes. Sian sensed a school of fish gathering around him, swarming away, while he sank deeper, and deeper.
Senses weakened as lungs cried out louder.
Resist!
No... resistance. None.
Deceptive silence encased him like a shell. Bubbles rushing up around him back up to the surface from whence he had sunken.
Words that had burnt themselves into memory now formed clearly within his mind. The last, final words of the sacrifice he had whispered to Her faces, which had sealed his fate.
The last words he had uttered before he completely delivered himself to Her waves.
Lungs call out for air. What air?
The sacrifice had ended.
Delivered to the waters... to wash away the curse. To wash away the shield that had consisted of anger and of blood.
Heart began to pound against chest again.
But without fear...
Flowing deeper. And deeper. Waves crashed overhead, colors of turquoise light green blue scintillating through the dark nothing of closing eyes. Sian sensed a school of fish gathering around him, swarming away, while he sank deeper, and deeper.
Senses weakened as lungs cried out louder.
Resist!
No... resistance. None.
Deceptive silence encased him like a shell. Bubbles rushing up around him back up to the surface from whence he had sunken.
Words that had burnt themselves into memory now formed clearly within his mind. The last, final words of the sacrifice he had whispered to Her faces, which had sealed his fate.
The last words he had uttered before he completely delivered himself to Her waves.
- May the rivers of life come full circle,
May eternity be where you flow.
May you count me among thy saints-
Teeming thy love as we go...