[PT] 10% off Senior Citizens Day [Bexley Briar]

[Turhan]

“ bone to rune ”

Dumpster fires rolling down the hill, towards your stalled car-on-traintracks-cannot-unlock-doors? situation, merits a different kind of scream that cannot ever compare to the the ear-shattering scream Bexley gives when she sees/encounters Turhan.  He is nothing more than The Thing in The Dark, another title for him to add to the many he already has; Boogeyman, Scalp Collector, or even Black Bear.  


No sooner after she shrieks and startles him further, a disturbed colony of bats horrifies the old man as they start pouring out of the by-way he is ensnared by.  Turhan moans in horror like a tortured old spirit while their flapping, snapping, and screaming surround him in a nightmarish flurry.   All his beads, bones, and bells, rattle, clatter, and jingle. He nervously pulls and pulls and pulls against the vine which has him by the horns while fighting off invisible monsters Meanwhile, the real culprits flutter up-and-out, far away to freedom.


When the bat-storm clears, he is much worse off than when Bexley initially encountered him.   His skin is slick with sweat, he twitters with horsey noises in all his nervousness because words won't find their way to him.  When the vine finally (finally) snaps and releases him that is when a poisoned quill shoots haphazardly across the distance between he and Bexley out of instinct.  But, because he's so nervous(and blind),  he misses her by a mile as the quill darts into soft clay several feet away from her head.


Bio-luminescence activates from all the commotion of footfall and sets the cave ablaze in moonglow revealing Bexley who looks like a cat that has noticed the dog before the dog has noticed it.  He must look beastly in the muting light, his shadow; haunch-backed, thorny, and with teeth that could tear her into two - all of it a recipe for an unexpected disaster.  The glowing cave accentuates an irrational level of height for him, his blind eyes glow preternatural and soulless deep within of the bone white skull.  A terminator of a horse if one didn't know just how old and crippled he truly was.


Turhan the Hulk.
The Annihilator.
The Devastator.


And quite unlike Turhan, Bexley is devastatingly beautiful in the forced night of the cave, she smells like a dream (like Eternity, like Vespera) but something in her voice makes Turhan think he is trapped underground with an awful dragon woman instead.  Heart be still, she speaks, and the world stops spinning on its axis.  Turhan nearly has a heart attack right there in the entrance of the secret passage way.  


What - the hell - are you? 


She sounds terrible and the masked horse staggers backwards, further into the hole in the wall.  "No eat me.  I am full of poison."  He warns.  In his old, broken mind, the golden girl's voice reminds him of an awful spidery thing he once met in his youth.  Although it is not the monster he knows, his thoughts paint pictures where his eyes cannot.  And since she can't prove anything, it is rather ridiculous how he cowers from a cute girl where so many others might not.


She asks him 'what' not 'who' and so Turhan, challenged already in most ways of the word, tells her what she demands to know.


"I am lost.  What are you?" 

T U R H A N
skull to dust

@Bexley  horse dementia.  ; /