Boundaries of Mirkwood
Chapter 17
“Gwar the Ur and Him”
Running, running, it runs in the night, away from the dark bird, his hands, and the burning pink light. Away from pain, pain, ever chasing Gwar. It curse the salt and the water! It curses the dark bird who saw his face and said his name! It had forgot, it had forgot, never to, never to never to open open open!
No going back. It will not go back—its master, the one who named him Gwar the Ur, would know and say it was such as waste, and maybe a pity, and give Gwar to Nothing for punishment; Nothing with ink and paper; Nothing it saw in the woods, but did not see Gwar. Master wanted rabbits; it has none. Master dislikes losing orc; it lost all. Master would not be pleased by news of birds; it knows its master would see all—the dark bird, the shape of his hands and the light of her promises. Curses they were, curses and lies! It saw his hands, then the lie; they weren’t its and pain raw, worse than the arrow, or later, the cat demon’s bit to its rump! It had to run from the pain, it doesn’t know how it escaped the cat, only that the pain went numb with the pink. Now the pain grows with its thoughts, grows and grows!
Those birds, the terrible birds! It runs now, it runs to save its skin; running as fast as it can is all it can do to survive—run as fast as it can and leave Nothing behind! But if Nothing (which is coming for the birds, it saw Nothing coming) leaves the birds alive, Gwar will hunt them, Gwar hates them, Gwar will kill them, and then Gwar will forget him again.
Blinding! Curse the salt and the water!
Chapter 17
“Gwar the Ur and Him”
Running, running, it runs in the night, away from the dark bird, his hands, and the burning pink light. Away from pain, pain, ever chasing Gwar. It curse the salt and the water! It curses the dark bird who saw his face and said his name! It had forgot, it had forgot, never to, never to never to open open open!
No going back. It will not go back—its master, the one who named him Gwar the Ur, would know and say it was such as waste, and maybe a pity, and give Gwar to Nothing for punishment; Nothing with ink and paper; Nothing it saw in the woods, but did not see Gwar. Master wanted rabbits; it has none. Master dislikes losing orc; it lost all. Master would not be pleased by news of birds; it knows its master would see all—the dark bird, the shape of his hands and the light of her promises. Curses they were, curses and lies! It saw his hands, then the lie; they weren’t its and pain raw, worse than the arrow, or later, the cat demon’s bit to its rump! It had to run from the pain, it doesn’t know how it escaped the cat, only that the pain went numb with the pink. Now the pain grows with its thoughts, grows and grows!
Those birds, the terrible birds! It runs now, it runs to save its skin; running as fast as it can is all it can do to survive—run as fast as it can and leave Nothing behind! But if Nothing (which is coming for the birds, it saw Nothing coming) leaves the birds alive, Gwar will hunt them, Gwar hates them, Gwar will kill them, and then Gwar will forget him again.
Blinding! Curse the salt and the water!
Subtitles
- Darkness and Starlight
- Abigail of Wellington
- Niobe of St. Andrews
- Arielle of Cedar Brook
- Yumiko of Shinjuku
- The Banks of River Running
- Stiff and Stark
- Screams in the Dark
- The Red Bird
- Many Meetings
- Night Fight
- Yumiko's New Friend
- A Mind of One's Own
- Running in Circles
- The Price for Revenge
- The Coming Night
- It Speaks English!
- Fragile Things: I
- Lull