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"I iS XoRaskAvitT aNd my tUrn iT is mIne!"<br />

Drunkenly he flies, and weighed <strong>do</strong>wn by the journal he careens and cracks<br />

against a pillar <strong>be</strong>fore flopping proudly upon the stage. With a mad grin<br />

Xoraskavitt perches up on the s<strong>to</strong>ol, cackling at the <strong>be</strong>wildered crowd as he<br />

<strong>be</strong>gins his tale.<br />

"gREen anD mad And qUIckeNing wiTh paVEd glImMers ThE OnE naMEd<br />

NAuGht tuMbles froM the sEa, wHIte anD blaCk at tHe SAme tiMe IN tHE<br />

sAme maNneR. TwICe The sUm <strong>of</strong> Four bE tEN wHIch daNCes in<strong>to</strong> thE chiLl<br />

bOne-nIght...<br />

‘Sally forth we and shall we <strong>be</strong> fourth <strong>to</strong> sally,’ I growled, ‘Find the Painted<br />

Egg we must for Morte hides truth <strong>to</strong> <strong>be</strong> cracked open, yolk spilling a<br />

thousand thoughts that shall <strong>be</strong>come the nectars <strong>of</strong> the Lethe.’<br />

Bar<strong>be</strong>d with the sigils <strong>of</strong> two moons Dak'kon takes the art most peculiar,<br />

smiling a whispered grin greenly. ‘Thus spaketh Monnizerth and his four<br />

truths.’<br />

I slip in<strong>to</strong> the warm waters and slide the razor cross my wrist.<br />

Torment. Pain. Torment. Pain. Torment. Pain.<br />

Whip the shade-streets with four tails and over the fifth star we go. The path<br />

is cobbled with a thousand <strong>of</strong> the third fever-nights where delirium springs<br />

hot and moist from the skulls <strong>of</strong> the Lost Ones.<br />

She is green.<br />

Rhadamanthus spoke <strong>to</strong> me in a bubbling voice, grey and silent as the ashen<br />

fields from which all life springs. His words spin out in a thousand needles,<br />

each piercing the eye <strong>of</strong> a sinner. It hurts much <strong>to</strong> <strong>do</strong> so, but I melt as ice in<br />

the sun. A scream wells from my lips burst in butterflies. So colorful they are.<br />

One <strong>be</strong>comes a fish. A<strong>not</strong>her a thimble. Three curve in<strong>to</strong> bulbous bubbles<br />

and tell me what <strong>to</strong> write.<br />

She is green.<br />

Nimbus <strong>of</strong> the weak we ride, high across the planes and for each we pass we<br />

catch two others hidden in a seashell. ‘Ride the winds!’ I cry, ‘Writhe with the<br />

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