Addison Trapp (touslejour) wrote in forgotten_gods, @ 2008-07-25 20:26:00 |
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Entry tags: | eris, eros |
who: Eris and Eros
when: Friday, around 8 o'clock
where: Outside a bank
The light had not yet dimmed and so the snake knew it was later in the year when it finally decided to emerge from the sewers it had called home for nearly a month. With glassy black eyes it peered out of a grate and blinked several times. Somewhere in the traffic of New York City a learned man spoke the name of the snake. In a whisper he invoked her name, yet unleashed her once more as a great shout in the night. Its great black body coiled beneath it, and its scales carved random patterns through the grime. With a splash it plopped its head back into the murky unmentionable foul mishmash of refuse as if a fine layer of it was necessary for protection. With something similar to a breath it slid from the grate, squeezing its way onto the sidewalk. It was silent, unnoticed, and it quickly entered an alley. Inside that darkness a metamorphosis took place, not for a mortal's eyes, and truly only for the most strong-hearted of gods' eyes. The snake snapped in places, writhed and shuddered - it seized and broke once more, its skin whitened grotesquely, its eyes bulged. The scales thinned and shifted and became long black hair, then certain pieces fell away and it was shoulder length on the new figure. It was a woman, odd because of her pale skin and lanky dark hair, too-red lips and too-wide eyes, and the clothing. Black material that could have been mistaken for leather but on closer look was clearly snake skin.
The woman stepped out from the alley and looked to her left and right but was quickly swept up by a mass of human traffic. Within that traffic she was difficult to see, as she was short, barely five foot three inches, but her effect on the crowd was immediate. She seemed to stumble at times, but that caused others around her to retch and fall, coughing blood as their innermost parts crumbled inside them. The woman looked halfway between confused and pleased with herself. She knew she was causing Trouble, but her body's brain had only just formed, she was more than a little out of it. As such, she was making no effort to hide her nature, any god with half a brain and any human with even the most remote supernatural sense could tell that she was a goddess, even if she herself was slightly confused on the matter. After ten minutes or so of this, she simply began to laugh. She wasn't sure yet why, but it was all so funny!