It has been weeks since his discovery in the dark. He had left the cave alone for as long as he could, but Mou was too curious even with his ample fear of that darkness. He drew close to the entryway on various occasions but he did not slip in to that narrow corridor, did not let himself linger for too long where the body's noxious gasses might reach him. The man was unable to remove the images from his mind from when he first discovered the creature; misshapen and foul as the body was, horrible as their situation must have been, Mou did not feel the same revulsion as before.
He saw the body in his dreams juxtaposed against bizarre memories. Each night they were stronger, holding him under. He would dream of Maegi and wake with the smell of rot in his nose; more recently his dreams slipped further from reality (as they often do) and he would wake within a layered dream-scape surrounded by faces he did not know. In the previous night alone Mou's mental escapades have taken him from a false wilderness to a poorly mimicked Blackfeather Woods, and when he woke he wasn't truly free of it.
He dreamt of a woman made of shifting black masses, smelling of dust, her angles skewed by the ravens whom composed her. He imagined climbing atop her; remembered this moment too, vaguely. The woman would open her mouth to scream and in that split second before his true awakening Mou would see the face of his sister Raven - it would morph in to Maegi, and he would spasm back to his own body. Each time the memories surfaced differently in his dreams but they always transmuted, shifting to the familiar, and he would always wake closer to that cave.
This time when he woke there was a distinctly sour smell in the air, as well as the scent of dust. He was groggy; the thin winter light of morning crept in around him, caught in his pale fur with faint illumination. The ground was stony and cold. Around him was a grey darkness - but as he focused on the light his eye adjusted and he could see -- the empty sunken eyes of the rotted dog corpse staring back at him. He had somehow brought himself in to the cave this time, not just close to it, and in knowing this he felt his blood run cold.
He saw the body in his dreams juxtaposed against bizarre memories. Each night they were stronger, holding him under. He would dream of Maegi and wake with the smell of rot in his nose; more recently his dreams slipped further from reality (as they often do) and he would wake within a layered dream-scape surrounded by faces he did not know. In the previous night alone Mou's mental escapades have taken him from a false wilderness to a poorly mimicked Blackfeather Woods, and when he woke he wasn't truly free of it.
He dreamt of a woman made of shifting black masses, smelling of dust, her angles skewed by the ravens whom composed her. He imagined climbing atop her; remembered this moment too, vaguely. The woman would open her mouth to scream and in that split second before his true awakening Mou would see the face of his sister Raven - it would morph in to Maegi, and he would spasm back to his own body. Each time the memories surfaced differently in his dreams but they always transmuted, shifting to the familiar, and he would always wake closer to that cave.
This time when he woke there was a distinctly sour smell in the air, as well as the scent of dust. He was groggy; the thin winter light of morning crept in around him, caught in his pale fur with faint illumination. The ground was stony and cold. Around him was a grey darkness - but as he focused on the light his eye adjusted and he could see -- the empty sunken eyes of the rotted dog corpse staring back at him. He had somehow brought himself in to the cave this time, not just close to it, and in knowing this he felt his blood run cold.
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The ice man cometh. - by Titmouse (Ghost) - January 19, 2020, 01:46 PM
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