Ratha's Courage by Clare Bell

Author:Clare Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: E-Reads
Published: 2008-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Now is for blackness within. Black beyond black. Darker than this coat that eats stars. Blacker than dead coals in the canyon. So many song-hearers burned. The song itself, burned.

Thoughts tumbling like smoke. The thick-skinned prey running in fear. The hunters wanting the thick-skinned prey. These jaws, carrying the log where the burning thing lives. These paws, scraping it out into dry pine needles. Knowing that the thick-skinned prey fear it and that they will run into the claws of the hunters.

Not knowing that death would run with it and fill the canyon. Not knowing that the song would char, become terrible for the part within.

Now is for painful questions. For asking what the jaws took, what the paws loosed and why the song of all senses has turned to black, to soot, and has blown away so that these paws cannot gather it back.

This night coat that eats stars is no longer known by the true voice and that is a black deeper than pain.

Now is for bewilderment, for suffering.

Now, alone.

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