First, they gathered in dark and silent places: old, abandoned warehouses, mostly-disused tenements, ancient and rusting shipyards, and other forgotten locales. They didn’t need to be told to go there – they just knew, somehow, and silently obeyed the call. Silently, they began the process of transformation. They tore off their clothing and exchanged it for makeshift robes of stolen sheets and shelter blankets. They used whatever they could find to paint their faces white and their eyelids a pale blue, and tore their hair out in ragged clumps, so as to have pates as smooth as vultures. Then they paired off to gently pull the teeth from each other’s mouths, until their smiles were empty and black. Only once this was done did they finally began to speak to one another – their voices the rattling and hisses of strange, carrion birds. Vocal at last, they began to form the structure of their new community.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 02:54:55 +0000
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