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Lucy

A shadow has infinite forms, and yet it was not until ages and eons past my birth, when my daughter’s blood soaked my feet, that I first took the shape of a fool.

I am a thing of cold and dark. When this world first formed, a fragment of the blackness between stars broke away and walked upon its cooling surface. When the world first sprouted Life, the blackness swallowed a piece and became me. When Life learned to think and speak, I laughed at their attempts to give me a name.

I have had many names. I have only had one daughter.

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Forbidden Knowledge

When it was over, she cracked open what passed for her mouth and did her best to scream. All that came out was a rattling whisper, like stale air escaping from a tomb.

The music was gone, but still his beloved voice echoed in her mind, crying out in desperation as she was ripped from his arms. She tried to open her eyes, but she had no eyes to open. She groped for any sort of clue, but her reaching hands clattered uselessly against the hard surface beneath her, feeling nothing. A rattling inhale brought no smells to her. Her teeth clacked dryly together, with neither tongue nor palate between her jaws.

She could hear.

For the first time in thousands of years, someone stood beside her and breathed.

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