Abigail Owens | Cassandra (thehorseisalie) wrote in forgotten_past, @ 2009-10-15 11:37:00 |
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Current music: | Epica - Fools of Damnation |
Who: Cassandra (POV) and Paris. Obscure references to individuals involved in the Trojan War. Spot them all and you get a cookie.
What: Why one should not mix Priamides and Olympians together.
When: Around 1196 BC, after the Judgement of Paris
Where: Troy
Notes: Stream of consciousness babble.
She was younger than him, and yet older. Their past resides in their future, and infancy was never an option. Her mother's dream was hers also, and what love there was between them rebounded to hate. Puppets held in gods' strings, subject to their whims and fickle natures. And which gods are fickle, if not Apollo and Aphrodite? Love and light, song and charm. Banes of humanity alongside their glory.
Siblings. How cruel the Moirae are.
He was exposed as an infant, his own mother horrified by the screaming brand. Their perfect son, the handsome one, a storm crow. She who came after knew the shepherd youth, the bear cub; there was no mistaking those curls so like the pillar's, the eyes - so blind - so like the god's chosen's.
Harpies do not sing as mournfully as she did then, grieving for a long dead future. To live all days in one, and die beyond the end. Mirror images, Epimetheus and Prometheus treading sandy shores, dancing a song that had yet to be heard but already echoed in their bones.
Desire and obsession - wisdom and glory never stood a chance, and discord reigns supreme. The Atreides turn the moon red for a deer's heart, while Orion's hound shines down on crumbling stone. Hooves stomp at a mind's word, and her weeping goes unheeded.