WHO: Calliope & Orpheus WHERE: The factory where Calliope has been left WHEN: Friday afternoon WHAT: A not-so-daring rescue WARNINGS: descriptions of brutality.
The darkness passed right by Calliope, as she was already lost inside a world of darkness and horror. She had been under the indelicate affections of Lyssa and Mania forever - it seemed - and the new things that crawled around her couldn't reach the levels of madness the muse had already had inflicted upon her.
Her mind was in ashes, lost somewhere dark, and when she had thoughts of the world they weren't of the here and now. She remembered the beaches of Greece, remembered a small child running across the sand towards her with a smile. She lifted him and held him close and protected him from the dangers of the world. Her sweet boy, her darling Orpheus.
She laughed against the cement floor, crying out her son's name.