MINYA
take that look from off your face
you ain't gunna burn my heart out
you ain't gunna burn my heart out
Minya runs to the beast, her eyes avid upon the serpent’s head. She watches as it changes as darkness suddenly spills from it like ink and swallows the group of horses about it. They disappear without sound and out of sight. There is only a swallowing black, deep as a void that beckons any to look at it to come, come, come and fall in.
She turns from its siren call. She looks beyond where she runs, across to where others are skirting the tail of the snake, but more beasts are rising to meet them. Her teeth grit and she wonder how she ever got here. She thinks of the safety and luxury of her room within the Scarab and prays that she will return there again.
As if in answer, as if Caligo herself (Minya sneers at such an idea) has deigned to save her, the belly of the serpent pulls apart. Roots like veins rise up, bones bending as an archway appears and beyond it a moat gleaming black. It does not beckon like that cloud of black. No it lies, almost silent and breathes as if beasts swim in its midst, commanding it to breath in and out. The moat rises and swells and sleeps like beauty. One kiss of Minya’s foot might be enough to awaken this horror. One kiss of another might be enough to send her tumbling down into her own eternal sleep.
The girl stops and watches. She waits for the others who run towards the moat. She waits to see who might fall and where. She waits for them to tell her where to kiss this darkness and live.
OOC: Minya chooses option three.
@Boudika| "speaks" | notes: eee <3
