The Turning of the Tide
Jun. 7th, 2011 08:01 amKiller-Kate and Luke Lackland: 260 words. Yesterday's fairy-tale fragment got them flowing and making sense again. The great raw intake of breath before the rebel howl.
(I nearly wrote 'rebel yell', before realizing the utter grotesquerie of applying that term to this cause and its temper. One might almost as well use it of John Brown as of Golden Kate, or of Nat Turner as of Edgar-a-Moss. The mind and gorge stage a rebellion all their own.)
Grey wolf howls in crimson gloam.
Elf-horns cry, and gods keep mum...
But the elf-horns keep as mum as the gods, and the battle must begin before our rebels are ready.
(I nearly wrote 'rebel yell', before realizing the utter grotesquerie of applying that term to this cause and its temper. One might almost as well use it of John Brown as of Golden Kate, or of Nat Turner as of Edgar-a-Moss. The mind and gorge stage a rebellion all their own.)
Grey wolf howls in crimson gloam.
Elf-horns cry, and gods keep mum...
But the elf-horns keep as mum as the gods, and the battle must begin before our rebels are ready.