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aprettygirl) wrote2014-02-15 08:55 am
aprettygirl) wrote2014-02-15 08:55 am
EVE'S HEART
A dark veil slips over you, obscuring your vision; it’s cool and clinging, and blocks out all outside sensation. You drift downward . . . as you do, you grow more and more aware of the pulse of your own heartbeat, until it’s a ringing, unpleasant throb in your ears.
. . . after some time, it’s interrupted by a soft splash, and you feel solid rock underfoot.
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. . . after some time, it’s interrupted by a soft splash, and you feel solid rock underfoot.
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He decided to spend the night there. He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. There were no wolves in the region, but once an animal had strayed during the night, and the boy had had to spend the entire next day searching for it.
He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
It was still dark when he awoke, and, looking up, he could see the stars through the half-destroyed roof. I wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. He had had the same dream that night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended.
He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that still slept. He had noticed that, as soon as he awoke, most of his animals also began to stir. It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that of the sheep, with whom he had spent the past two years, leading them through the countryside in search of food and water. "They are so used to me that they know my schedule," he muttered. Thinking about that for a moment, he realized that it could be the other way around: that it was he who had become
accustomed to their schedule.
But there were certain of them who took a bit longer to awaken. The boy prodded them, one by one, with his crook, calling each by name. He had always believed that the sheep were able to understand what he said. So there were times when he read them parts of his books that had made an impression on him, or when he would tell them of the loneliness or the happiness of a shepherd in the fields. Sometimes he would comment to them on the things he had seen in the villages they passed.
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Wake.
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She looks like Eve, but a little shorter and slighter, though, with a bobbed haircut, wearing a rumpled labcoat over a silver-and-white military uniform -- clearly a younger version. She is also very sleepy -- not even a column of towering murder flame seems to be able to cut through that.
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Your heart is constructed poorly.
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What are mouldering books with bindings that fall apart at a touch even meant to represent?
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If you can't be bothered to make your dreams by hand, why should they escape damage?
[tosses one of the disintegrating books, carelessly]
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"The books are only the first layer of the truth."
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Do you go away from this room at all? See the muck where dreams don't reach?
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Of what?
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She seems to be waking up more . . . a crack runs down the frame, and the laboratory shivers.
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And then do what? Sleep?
[POKES IT AGAIN]
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It begins to break . . .
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