Addison Trapp (touslejour) wrote in forgotten_gods, @ 2008-07-04 09:29:00 |
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Entry tags: | eris, hermes, raven |
who: Eris and OTA
when: Thursday night
where: A rather dirty alley
notes: Eris is dead. (for now) This would probably be more shocking to the Greeks? Though if a mortal wants to find the body, that would be delightful.
Eris, the charming, benevolent, gracious goddess that she was, had made a mistake. The consequence of this was that she was dead. No. Really. Locals, when prompted, would say that they had heard a wild cacophony of laughing and cursing that climaxed to a wordless, shrill wail before the splat and the crack and the silence. The body lay slumped against a brick-and-iron wal, a long trail of blood indicated where it had hit the wall and then slid down, presumably she had been flung from an adjacent building. Even in death, Eris was not peaceful, her eyes were wide and red-rimmed, and seemed to point in different directions. Not surprisingly, her body was decaying very rapidly. It had been dead for little over seven hours, but the tips of her extremities, her fingers, hands, toes and feet, had already turned to an unrecognizable black mush on the concrete ground. The decay was odd, however, there were no insects buzzing around Eris' corpse, which was a good thing, a mouthful of her flesh would have killed them slowly and quite painfully - for flies. Most of her teeth had already fallen out, and if the corpse was jostled her hair would come off in large chunks.
The oddest thing about the corpse was not entirely visible as it was lying face up, but had one turned it over, they would see a line of black, bubbling skin from the crown of her head to the base of her spine. It boiled, hissed, and in a gotesque display, the bones of Eris' spine fell through the skin to land on the ground in a sad heap. The bones were black, they did not remain inanimate for long. They began to thicken, and seemed to almost shine in the dim light of the alley. Gradually, there came to be a thin black snake laying where the bones once had.
The snake seemed to peer at the body, then seemed to shake its head in disbelief. It did not linger, however, and slithered into an open gutter. Eris was gone. Well, for a little while. It would take her weeks to gather her conciousness together enough to reform a real human body.