a king walks among us
El Rey turns to look at him. It is a slow and painful movement, the blood spilling down his legs like little sanguine streams and the very movement seems to take an eternity. Great black eyes look at little opal ones. “Why must we fight, brother?”
“I am not your brother.”
“But you are something to me.”
“I am your killer.”
Avenger of the lost.
“Maybe,” Rey said, “but why?”
“You’re fucking with me.”
“No.”
“People like you deserve to die.”
“Like me?” Reality wriggled in his grasp. He knew the wrongdoings, the murder, the torture, but they had been Right at the time, Acceptable, Upright and Moral things to Do…Did they lose that quality, being in the past, when the present was a time of different values?
My brother charges me with the intent to kill. Is this any more right, I think, than what I have done? Family has evaded me all my life and now that I have found it, it has come to kill me. My own blood.
El Rey thinks of the things he has to live for and imagines that they outnumber the things El Toro has to live for. He may be right.
They lock horns.
”in blood the blade, to its golden hilt, I’ll drown,“
I pledge you now, to death they all are bound,
“I am not your brother.”
“But you are something to me.”
“I am your killer.”
Avenger of the lost.
“Maybe,” Rey said, “but why?”
“You’re fucking with me.”
“No.”
“People like you deserve to die.”
“Like me?” Reality wriggled in his grasp. He knew the wrongdoings, the murder, the torture, but they had been Right at the time, Acceptable, Upright and Moral things to Do…Did they lose that quality, being in the past, when the present was a time of different values?
My brother charges me with the intent to kill. Is this any more right, I think, than what I have done? Family has evaded me all my life and now that I have found it, it has come to kill me. My own blood.
El Rey thinks of the things he has to live for and imagines that they outnumber the things El Toro has to live for. He may be right.
They lock horns.
”in blood the blade, to its golden hilt, I’ll drown,“
I pledge you now, to death they all are bound,
