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1: Rhoda now approaches the base of a massive tree made of tangled blue cords; the ‘core’ of Tazim’s body. A voice chimes out from behind her:
???: Rhoda, there you are…
2: Rhoda tilts her head blindly towards an elderly gray rat in a black cloak that has approached her from behind. Gray moths rest on his body.
Rhoda: Hello, Mal-Fa’asha.
3: The rat smiles at her.
Mal: I could see your journey from all the way up here.
You did so well… Look how much you’ve grown in such a short time…
A child no longer.
4: Rhoda’s stern expression softens.
Rhoda: I had good teachers.
5: Rhoda looks up at Tazim as Mal speaks.
Mal: I’ve been keeping an eye on your little lost Melissa as requested…
6: A flashback to Melissa’s body, half-formed in a tangled mass of black flesh.
Mal: Your ritual guided her soul safely to the new body… Your intention, I assume?
7: A new creature is seen, one of glistening black muscle and spiked carapace armor.
Mal: The creature you sacrificed for her… the potential that embryo had…
8: Rhoda looks down, forlorn.
Mal: I hope she’s worth it.
The creature that was sacrificed, was it perhaps an attempt by the Black Mass to evolve, to become more than just a purposeless destroyer of worlds?
Oh crud!
Eep!
I hadn’t thought of that!
I guess: In this story’s universe, the Gods’s gifts to you, are not free.
I guess the humans/this world’s human-type people, when they get a gift from a god like Hastur, or Yig: then SOMEONE will pay the price…or take the burden, for that.
In this case, I think a demigod, or some physical child or ward of Rhoda’s god[s], took the burden this time.
I wonder if Rhoda owned this god’s ward/dear thing, or will Rhoda have to pay back her god for this, at some time.
I think: getting a big gift like this is like getting a gift from an evil king, like: from Ming the Merciless, or from Skeletor, or from Darth Vader, or from Spiderman’s mafia-rule foe…the Kingpin. What will high price you have to pay for it?
…Sorry about the long comment. Sometimes scifi ideas, + metaphysical-like ideas, can be difficult for me to express in 3-4 sentences. 😀
This is a great page, Rebecca! 😀 😀
I would like to point out that Air’Asha’s gift to Julia in Chapter 20 (pages 37 – 40) was given freely. And enthusiastically.
But I think in this case, there probably just wasn’t any other way to save Mel. It might not be a great solution, but it does at least work.. And we don’t know what the creature was supposed to be, nor what the goals of those trying to bring it about actually were.
That’s cool to know. Thanks! 😀 😀
Thank you also for telling me about Julia’s gift, in chaper 20. 😀
Also, if I may point it out- I didn’t say that I have a belief that-[all] the gods in this story, would ask for a high price for their favors. Just to clarify. Cheers. 🙂
Hi Rebecca,
I just wanted to let you know that: I’ve recently changed my email account.
I used to have a yahoo [R] email, but I think- they decided my computer + browser are “too old”, + yahoo won’t let me use it, anymore.
I’m the same dude…named TRA, as before.
I just wanted to tell you about this change that I did. 🙂
Thanks + Cheers, TRA
I guess this also means that-
in this world or universe- that non-physical: spirits + creatures do exist, + that some supernatural creature wasn’t hypnotizing Rhoda, when the creature was showing Rhoda parts of, my words, parts of this word’s supernatural world[s], in the story/chapter of, “The True face of God”.
[Just to clarify what I mean- when I’m talking about spirits + supernatural worlds, I’m talking about this story’s, [fictional: spirits + supernatural worlds].
I’m not talking about anyone’s [beliefs in the real world], or about [real-life…religions, or other beliefs].
Thanks.
Cheers.
Ah! We finally find out how (and WHY) she “regenerated” into a new location.
Fits extremely well. Though I am slightly concerned about the price she’ll have to pay for it…