“How utterly useless you are!”-?
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The Revenge took many forms, but it had always remained singular and unavoidable.
When the urge took a man overcome by It, everything crumbles around him. Like debris, bits and pieces of this everything that the man or woman took to as his or her world would not just disappear, but would tumble in place and form new things; and they might just look like new kitchen appliances, medical insurance cards, or even a blank column reserved for a soon to be written obituary.
Needless to say, they will all bend to the paths of deathless hopeless misery, and they will learn to gnash the ends of their teeth and brave new and strange diseases as they will.
The forms of ‘the Revenge that is, that will, and that was’ are known to all. But yet, it was only divined out by a meager few, and such are the facts.
A ready to fire bakakkuk, for instance, or a sharpened and seasoned parang hidden under sofa covers, or stranger still, a sleek black lacquered wooden crossbow with real bloody and poisoned bolts are some of such forms. Great Forms of the inexplicable tenderness in part of the wielder and the love between him/her and the Form of The Revenge.
It is too easy to say that the revenge gets love and attention. A bit too easy, in painful revelations called Truths.
So, it is to say that love and attention given to the Revenge are just some of the things that should be done, something like side dishes on the main menu.
And so to say, as it should be, to continue on with this…the revelation of the nature of the main menu, or the prime thing needed by the Revenge is
“Just the memory of it!”
But not just any memory,
or some memory,
for it is a fact to remember that ,
two or three had fallen(or maybe more!)
The Revenge is alive and happy and neglected(for a while)
The discussions continued(it cannot be stopped…yet)
and new faces will enter the stage(they have yet to come!)
Period!
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“Do not ask us, The Children of the Night, how it came to be, it just did”-The Children of The Night