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simply can’t
imagine how boring that can be. Do you think it was nice scratching
my nose and then finding it between my fingers? Oh, my dear. Inside
me, I feel infinite cavities filled with putrid liquid and gas just
waiting to get out by unnatural ways. It’s not a good existence.
Put yourself in my shoes. Well, they’re encrusted with all sorts of
dry fluids. So, let’s say, see it from my side,I find it of the
utmost importance that you come back home, together with what
belongs to me.” He raised his index to indicate the child. “That is
my blood and I need it. I need it badly.”
    “ Where’s your other hand,
sweetheart?”
    “ It must have fallen
somewhere. Where, I do not know. With the shortage of protein in
the local diet some beast must have already collected and digested
it, as time does with your stupid human lives, more or
less.”
    “ What a subtle
metaphor.”
    “ Thank you.”
    “ That hand with which you
used to caress me,” Aniah remembered, as her eyes got lost. “Vowing
that you would protect me forever.”
The god remained silent. The bandages on
his left shoulder moved, letting out a puff of fetid gas. “You
think you can still talk to him, don’t you?” he deduced. “Hidden
inside this rotting body, you think you can reach Crowley
Nightfall, Pendracon of Golconda, vicar of Angra and all that blah
blah. You think you can tell him, ‘Fight against him, love of my
life! Come out! I’m waiting for you with legs wide open!’ Oh.
That’s stupid, woman, very stupid, and technically wrong,the man
you loved is now only the skin I wear. You should have realized it
after what I did to you. He would have never done anything like
that, to you. He used to love you, he used to love you
deeply.”
    “ Oh. Really?”
    “ Yes I know. Because I also
have his memories. Your stupid memories.”
She froze. “Don’t do it. You took him away
from me. Leave them to me, at least those.”
    “ You know which one is my
favorite? The wild scent of the Glade of Golconda. If I’m not
mistaken, your first time together.” Now Aniah felt that
treacherous hiss born inside her. The bastard was doing it on
purpose. “What a romance, my little one. The invincible warrior who
had killed and fought and won his wars was so embarrassed to get
inside a woman’s body for the first time. He was no more than a
little kid, all red with shame. A fledgling with its willy. But you
were there, expert filly, telling him what to do, ‘Put your hands
here, push, bite me here…’ Ah! Worth dying in laughter! Well, since
you were weaned so young it’s no surprise you were a little more
experienced, honey. You gave him self-confidence. You didn’t make
him feel stupid when every other woman would have humiliated him. I
appreciate it, you know? You were even able to make him climax,
even though he didn’t reciprocate the favor. This man will never
know how much we enjoyed ourselves, instead. Oh yeah! I felt you.
Surely the force that has lived through
all eternity has some more experience,
sugar, you have to concede me that at least!”
Aniah locked her fingers into two fists, as
Skyrgal shook his decomposing body in an obscene and slow imitation
of sex.
    “ Yes, ride your favorite god
once again! To the stars and then down into the throat of hell!” He
stopped only when he heard her laughing instead of crying. “Oh, you
think it’s funny?” Now the voice was coming straight from the
sidereal depths of that mass of bandages. Skyrgal was genuinely
surprised.
    “ I find another thing
funny,” she said.
    “ What?”
    She raised her head to look
at him, grinning through her tears. “Even now that you just got
reincarnated, you lost your left hand,” she said. “Just like the
one Angra tore away from you with his teeth, according to the
ancient scriptures! Remember how you felt weak as he cut you into
pieces? Remember how it was humiliating to scream in pain at his
feet, while you were exiled from your true