The sea carried my body from the shores of Sanity. I felt the ebb and flow of the tide against my fragile mind. Screams and furor filled my ears and my voice, shrill and broken, poured from my mouth soundlessly. I was lost.
Green and slithering, His Voice poured into my hollow shell with all the fluidity of Virginia mud. It's thick, viscous slime tainting the essence of what little self I had left inside the feeble confines of my consciousness. It crawled like a living thing, it accompanied the taproots that bored themselves into my soul. I floated along, unable to steer myself in any direction, unable to see my destination, but feeling the pull of the deepening Madness. I was going to be taken there... to R'Lyeh... and I was going to become a servant to the Great Old One. I could feel the changes being made to me as Karasu had been changed so long ago.
Karasu. I knew him, didn't I? My mind wandered to distant shores, to places I had never been, and to scenes I could not have witnessed. I saw a ship thrown about in a raging storm, I was a great city rise from the sea and feel the terror of men over generations. Karasu. How was this finding it's way here, inside me now? How was it that I could feel lost in eternity, yet tied to that foul creature? He called me 'child'. Why? And where was that damned Key, anyway? Where did I leave it? Where had it gotten off to? Suddenly, I felt a great urge to find it. I felt a powerful drive to seek out my Key. Now. Frenzied I wanted to thrash, to flail against my mental bindings... to rebel against the power holding my broken mind in it's grasp. A sound, not His, reached my core. Three Caws. Again. And Again. A crow? Here at sea? How... And my mind fell away into the depths of confusion.
Colors swirled against the sky, disjointed scents filled my nostrils, and non-rhythmic drums hammered against my chest.
And again...
Caw. Caw. Caw...
<a noise like a muffled scream...>
continued.
Yes! More Raven's Gate! Thank you, Lady Muse!! :)
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