[open] living in a city of sleepless people [quest]

[bible]

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She is a mother of monsters.
They have ravaged the earth.
They have eaten their way from her womb.
She has unleashed true horror.
(Not on purpose, never on purpose.
But her womb is a poisoned thing, you see.)

Save for the girls.
Her beautiful daughters.
They were never built for destruction.
Lovely things, if not absolutely just or kind.

But the last death had taken her sight.
Those golden eyes have gone cloudy.
She has not laid eyes on the dark filly in the water.
She knows the child in other ways.
Knows exactly the sound of her breathing.
The soft thrum of life.

(She has cared for this child in ways she has not cared for others.)
(Perhaps because Death had gnawed once again at her heart.)

And when the child goes, she follows.
Not closely, not at first.

But panic seizes her by the throat, Bible.
When she can no longer hear the hoofbeats.
She begins to run, blind and headlong.
Crashes into the water because she could not hear it over her fear.

“Vallebeth!” she cries.
It comes out strangled, see.
See how it agonizes her!

ever since i heard the howlin' wind
i didn't need to go where a bible went