There was a day a day or two ago--a biblical day. A year, a month, a century, or three. The earth was made in 7 days. There was a day, when the sun went down--a dark day, an opposite day. Starting with the sun slinking away because the Hunter rules the winter and the Scorpion in the summer, and everything has a cycle and an orbit and which way does the maelstrom spin?
There was a day a week or a hundred a ago when Hades said -- You hit the right notes. You sang the right song. You asked just right. And it grated on my ears and it cut through my eardrums, till it dripped down the back of my throat and cut cut right to my cold dead heart-- All he said was--Don't look back. Don't look back till you're out of the gates.
Trust.
I looked back -- You would too. Don't judge.
I'm Nicolas de Lenfent.
I stole the boat docked on the pier. I'm trying to walk off of it.