☀ VIDEO

[errandry]

[ from the recording, the noise boils out of the speakers in a torrent of shrieks and chanting and drums. impressions are almost shockingly crisp: the vaulted ceilings, torches leering from the dark, carved idols with all their spines and horns. figures flicker in and out of focus as the recording darts past—stripped bare, every one. well, it's only manners in a cult to go naked to a ritual sacrifice, isn't it?

the tide of sound rises. they're shouting a single name. Esaimu, Esaimu, Esaimu—! ]



[ then, of course, the camera zeroes in to a figure on the outskirts. for a boy surrounded by naked women, he sure looks traumatised. ]

E... saimu...



[ meanwhile, very clearly from the present— ]

I'm totally gonna wreck the video on this thing. How'd it even get inside my mind?!

Comments

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Not when the rest of it lasted way longer!

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

But I'm guessing you're not going to explain the rest.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Not even if I spent a century buried alive for it.

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

Well then, I don't see why I shouldn't use what I have to make conjectures.

[Pulling out the big gunswords!]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ ............. ]

Yeah, yeah. Whatever, think what you want.

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

I will.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning.